SAARUTU · Socioanalysis and Alien Anthropology Research Unit at Theory Underground · Brief Library
Across the whole corpus
Written across Virilio's whole body of work rather than on any single text.
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1975 · His first book: photographs and meditations on the Atlantic Wall bunkers — the monolith of total war become an archeology of fear along a militarized coast.
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1977 · The founding text of dromology, the logic of speed. War, the city, and the state read as a race in which politics is the administration of movement and velocity is power.
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1980 · Picnolepsy, cinema, and the vanishing of the real: perception accelerated until presence flickers and the world is edited by speed.
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1983 · The long interview with Sylvère Lotringer: total war internalized into peacetime, the military-scientific complex, and the endocolonization of society by its own defense.
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1984 · The logistics of perception — how the camera and the weapon co-evolved, from aerial reconnaissance to the cinema of the front, until seeing becomes a way of targeting.
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1984 · The crisis of scale and of the whole: the disappearing horizon and architectural depth as the screen and the instant displace the built city.
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1988 · The automation of perception — sightless vision, the image with no witness. When machines see for us, the eye is delegated and the visible is administered.
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1990 · Terminal velocity and the arrival of everything at once: the inertia of the interactive body, held in place while the world is delivered to the screen.
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1993 · Technological contamination and the transplant of the human: the motorized body, teletopia, and the industrialization of memory and the living.
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1996 · A logbook of accidents and catastrophes: the event as the true landscape of a media time that abolishes duration into the live and the instantaneous.
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1997 · The pollution of distances and the loss of the local: real time, telepresence, and the grey ecology of a world contracted to the here-and-now of the screen.
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1998 · After the atomic bomb, the information bomb: the globalitarian accident, cybernetics, and the interactive detonation that synchronizes and short-circuits the world.
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1998 · The Der Derian anthology — a mapped path through the corpus: speed, war, perception, and the accident. The fastest way into Virilio's thought.
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1999 · Kosovo and the war of the airwaves: the first war waged as a media operation, where deception, altitude, and the screen replace the battlefield.
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2005 · The accident is invented with the substance — to invent the ship is to invent the shipwreck. A museum of the accident and the integral catastrophe of progress.
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2010 · Financial and informational acceleration toward the crash: the synchronization of markets and affects, and the systemic accident of a world at light-speed.
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2010 · The interview with Bertrand Richard: fear as governance, the synchronization of emotion, and the propaganda of progress in a society administered by dread.
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