Quotes by Paul Virilio

About Paul Virilio:

Paul Virilio is a French cultural theorist and urbanist. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military.
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Images contaminate us like viruses.

Paul Virilio

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Paul Virilio

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

Paul Virilio

Il faut penser à ce qui arrive - nous sommes les producteurs de l'avenir.

Paul Virilio

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.

Paul Virilio

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Paul Virilio

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.

Paul Virilio

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Paul Virilio

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Virilio
  • DescriptionCultural theorist
  • BornJanuary 4, 1932
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer; Architect; Educationist