Paul Virilio

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Paul Virilio (born 1932 in Paris, France) is a 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.

Known for

• Celluloid and Marble — Self2011
• Paul Virilio: Penser la vitesse — Self2009
• Le Syndrome du Titanic — Self (voice)2009
• Unknown Quantity2005
• Entretien sur le béton — Self1969

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Greece

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

   · 1958 · cited 70,815x

2. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 68,270x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,797x

4. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 45,719x

5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

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Quotes

• “The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies. Thus, 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.”
• “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”
• “All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.”
• “Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.”
• “The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.”
• “at the same time almost as much work is going into the development of the information bomb; a bomb that will have the same destructive effects on society's capacity to remember its past, a past that has a structure of its own and shapes the present.”

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