Paul Virilio Quotes About Today
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What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm.
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Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.
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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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Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
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Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.
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Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.
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Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of techno-scientific advances that are taking shape today.
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