Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio′s work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space′, `chronopolitics′, art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and `hypermodernism′, the time of the trajectory and the `information bomb′. His thoughts on Foucault, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, the performance artist Stelarc, the Persian War and the Kosovo War, are also gathered together.
Table of Content
Preface – Paul Virilio
Introduction – John Armitage
PART ONE: ON THEORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Interview One: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond – John Armitage
PART TWO: ON ARCHITECTURE
Interview Two: Paul Virilio and the Oblique – Enrique Limon
Interview Three: The Time of the Trajectory – Andreas Ruby
PART THREE: ON SPEED-SPACE AND CHRONOPOLITICS
Interview Four: Speed-Space – Chris Dercon
Interview Five: Perception, Politics and the Intellectual – Niels Br[um]ugger
Interview Six: The Information Bomb – Friedrich Kittler
PART FOUR: ON ART, TECHNOCULTURE AND THE INTEGRAL ACCIDENT
Interview Seven: Paul Virilio – J[ac]er[ci]ome Sans
Interview Eight: Paul Virilio – Dominique Joubert & Christiane Carlut
Interview Nine: The Dark Spot of Art – Catherine David
Interview Ten: Landscape of Events Seen at Speed – Pierre Sterckx
Interview Eleven: Not Words but Visions! – Nicholas Zurbrugg
PART FIVE: ON THE STRATEGIES OF DECEPTION
Interview Twelve: The Kosovo W@r Did Take Place – John Armitage
Suggested Further Reading
Select Bibliography of the Works of Paul Virilio – John Armitage
About the author
John Armitage is Principal Lecturer in politics and media studies at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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