The Great Accelerator by Paul Virilio,Julie RoseRequirements: .PDF reader, 1.2 MBOverview: On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of […]
Bunker Archaeology by Paul VirilioRequirements: .PDF reader, 9 MBOverview: Out of print for almost a decade, we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titlesphilosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archeology. In 1994 we published the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975, which accompanied an exhibition […]
The Information Bomb by Paul VirilioRequirements: .PDF reader, 8.4 mbOverview: Civilization or the militarization of science?” With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives … and deaths. After the era of the atomic bomb, Virilio posits […]
Virilio and the Media by John ArmitageRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 462 KBOverview: In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture. Virilio’s examinations of the connections between perception, logistics, the city, and new media […]
Virilio and the Media by John Armitage Requirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.2MBOverview: In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed how we think about contemporary media culture. Virilio’s examinations of the connections between perception, logistics, the city, and new media […]