Pure war: twenty-five years later
Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II. In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotring…
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- Full title :Pure war : twenty-five years later / Paul Virilio / Sylvère Lotringer ; translated by Mark Polizzotti.
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Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II. In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvere Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the "accidents" that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the "accident"-both military and economic-has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, "local" accidents-like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s-escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. "Globalization," Virilio argues, is the planet's ultimate accident.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
- Edition:New and updated ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed by MIT Press, Semiotext(e)
- Place of Publication:Los Angeles, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
Notes
Previous edition: 1997.
The Physical Object
- Description:253 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781584350590, 1584350598
- oclc:ocn230987724
- LC Classification:U21.2
- Dewey Decimal:300.1
Table of Contents
The space of war -- The time of war -- Technology and trans-politics -- Fragmentation and technology -- Speed and the military -- Deterrence and freedom of movement -- The colonization of time -- Cinema and resistance -- Endo-colonization and the state-as-destiny -- The production of destruction -- The war-machine and death -- Pacifism and the regression of politics -- The north-south inversion -- The fatal couple and the supreme idol -- Postscript 1997: Infowar -- Postscript 2007: War on the cities.
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