If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.
Paul VirilioThe automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
Paul VirilioTo a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As far as I am concerned, I am a materialist of the body, which means that the body is the basis of all my work.
Paul VirilioBecause Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.
Paul VirilioThe creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.
Paul VirilioI repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.
Paul Virilio