Paul Virilio Quotes

• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Negativity, Progress

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

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• There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

  Paul Virilio

  Dream, Eye, Blind Spots

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• Virtuality will destroy reality.

  Paul Virilio

  Realidad

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Space, Today

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• To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

  Paul Virilio

  Distance, Liberty

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• Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

  Paul Virilio

  Winning, Messages, Digital

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.143, Verso

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• How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

  Paul Virilio

  Si

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• The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

  Paul Virilio

  Reality, Men, Problem

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• Images contaminate us like viruses.

  Paul Virilio

  Virus

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• All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Class, Knowing

  Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (1997). “Pure war”, Semiotext

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• The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

  Paul Virilio

  Technological Development, Democracy, Culture

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.

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  Powerful, Technology, Reality

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• La velocidad de la luz no sólo transforma el mundo. Se convierte en el mundo. La globalización es la velocidad de la luz.

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  Light, Doe, World

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• In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

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  Real, Mad, Way

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• We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

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  Eye, Reality, Two

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• Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

  Paul Virilio

  Reality, Light, World

  Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard (2012). “The Administration of Fear”, p.41, MIT Press

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• Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

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  Ideas, Acting, Cyberspace

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• To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

  Paul Virilio

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

  Paul Virilio

  Religious, Media, Information

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• What is accidented is reality.

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  Realidad

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• Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God.

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  Religious, Thinking, Technology

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• La gente se burla del cibersexo, pero en realidad es algo a tener en cuenta: ¡es un drama, un desdoblamiento del ser humano! El ser humano puede convertirse ahora en una especie de espectro o fantasma que practica sexo a distancia. Eso es realmente aterrador porque se está escindiendo lo que solía ser la relación más íntima y más importante con la realidad. No se trata de una simulación, sino de la coexistencia de dos mundos separados.

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  Sex, Fun, Distance

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• Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

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  Real, Cyberspace, Accidents

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• The territorial body has been polluted by roads, elevators, etc. Similarly, our animal body starts being polluted. Ecology no longer deals with water, flora, wildlife and air only. It deals with the body itself as well. It is comparable with an invasion: technology is invading our body because of miniaturisation.

  Paul Virilio

  Animal, Technology, Air

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• One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Winning, One Day

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