It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.
Paul VirilioThe speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Paul VirilioThe globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.
Paul VirilioThe body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
Paul Virilio