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Pure War, New Edition

Pure War, New Edition

Virilio, Paul
Lotringer, Sylvere
Virilio, Paul

Paperback

Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

PhilosophyTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1584350598
ISBN13: 9781584350590
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II.

In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the accidents that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the accident--both military and economic--has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, local accidents--like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s--escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. Globalization, Virilio argues, is the planet's ultimate accident.Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to an immigrant Italian family. Trained as an urban planner, he became the director of the École Speciale d'Architecture in the wake of the 1968 rebellion. He has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both with Sylvère Lotringer and published by Semiotext(e). Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007) and other books.

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