Paul Virilio Quotes About Accidents
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There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing oneself to be run over. This is more than a play with words, it's fundamental.
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A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.
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The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.
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The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.
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The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.
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The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.
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For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.
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In the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
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All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.
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Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident.
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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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Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.
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Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
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The 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.
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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
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It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
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