Virilio Live: Selected Interviews / Edition 1

by John Armitage

Overview

Edited by one of the leading Virilio authority's, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761968603
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/19/2001
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

John Armitage is Principal Lecturer in politics and media studies at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

‘Read Virilio at his spoken best: accelerated, corrosive, prophetic. Virilio is trying to wake up everyone that slumbers as the information bomb disappears the autonomous subject, trivializes democratic politics, and turns Western ways of war into a videogame. Drivign a stake into the heart of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, Virilio Live could well be the best possible antidote yet for the virtually undead' - James Der Derian, editor of The Virilio Reader

‘The spontaneity of the interview form brings otu the best in Virilio. This is an indispensable guide to the work and thought of one of the most important contemporary thinkers. A lively and thought-provoking collection, it will be welcomed by initiates and newcomers alike' - Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London

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