Paul Virilio Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• 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, Mean, Politics

  "Ctheory Interview With Paul Virilio". Interview with John Armitage, www.ctheory.net. October 18, 2000.

• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Powerful, Technology, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

• A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.

  Paul Virilio

  Museums, Television, Needed

  Source: ctheory.net

• All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Accidents

  Source: ctheory.net

• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Museums, Cinema

  Source: ctheory.net

• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Stress, Mean

  Source: ctheory.net

• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Running, Mean, Expression

  Source: ctheory.net

• The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

  Paul Virilio

  Bombs, Atomic Bomb, Provoked

  Source: ctheory.net

• Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.

  Paul Virilio

  World, Television, Exposed

  Source: ctheory.net

• The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

  Paul Virilio

  Giving, Bombs, Information

  Source: ctheory.net

• Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

  Paul Virilio

  Mean, Media, Television

  Source: ctheory.net

• The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

  Paul Virilio

  People, Risk, Stock Exchange

  Source: ctheory.net

• Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Cyberspace, Accidents

  Source: ctheory.net

• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Warfare, Bombs, Surveillance

  Source: ctheory.net

• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Creation, Form

  Source: ctheory.net

• For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Asian, Financial

  Source: ctheory.net

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