Paul Virilio Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• 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.

• World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Europe, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

• What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to what extent an immense territory, a whole continent, had effectively been reorganized into one city, and just like the cities of old. From that moment on, I became more interested in urban matters, in logistics, in the organisation of transport, in maintenance and supplies.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Europe, Cities

  Source: ctheory.net

• I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, War, Believe

  Source: ctheory.net

• Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Important, Titles

  Source: ctheory.net

• Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Space, Significance

  Source: ctheory.net

• The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Cnn, Space

  Source: ctheory.net

• France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Air, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

• I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Believe, Race

  Source: ctheory.net

• In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct. For instance, almost every conflict since then has involved the logistics of perception, including the war in Lebanon, where Israel made use of cheap drones in order to track Yasser Arafat with the aim of killing him.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Book, Order

  Source: ctheory.net

• For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.

  Paul Virilio

  War, World, Use

  Source: ctheory.net

• War is cinema, and cinema is war

  Paul Virilio

  War, Cinema

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

  Paul Virilio

  War, Accidents

  Source: ctheory.net

• What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls  but with a roof! Isn't that disappearance extraordinary?!

  Paul Virilio

  Wall, War, Air

  Source: ctheory.net

• Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

  Paul Virilio

  Country, War, Suicidal

  Source: ctheory.net

• If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!'

  Paul Virilio

  Jobs, Military, Real

  Source: ctheory.net

• However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!

  Paul Virilio

  War, Home, Space

  Source: ctheory.net

• What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, War, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

  Paul Virilio

  War, Views, Europe

  Source: ctheory.net

• I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, War, Chinese

  Source: ctheory.net

• There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Cnn, Perception

  Source: ctheory.net

• GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Gps, Roles

  Source: ctheory.net

• War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

  Paul Virilio

  War, University

• Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or the Gulf War - as if he were a captain whose huge boat would have become his own body. Thus the body simulates the relationship to the world.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Men, World

  Source: ctheory.net

• For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, War, Deception

  Source: ctheory.net

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