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by Paul Virilio (Author), Chris Turner (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Verso Books (16 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1859844162
  • ISBN-13: 978-1859844168
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 10.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force? In a remarkable tour d'horizon, Paul Virilio paints a bleak picture of current scientific, cultural, social and political values. Art has succumbed to the techniques of advertising, while in politics the battle for hearts and minds has become a mere 'synchronization of opinion'. TV ratings have triumphed over universal suffrage. The events of September 11 reflect both the manipulation of a global sub-proletariat and the delusions of an elite of rich students and technicians who resemble the 'suicidal members of the Heaven's Gate cybersect'. And, in this post-humanist dystopia, we are morally rudderless before the threat of biological manipulations as yet undreamt-of. The Anonymity of those who initiated the attack merely signals, for everyone, the rise of the global covert state - of the unknown quantity of private criminality - that 'beyond-Good-and-Evil' which has for centuries been the dream of the high priests of an iconoclastic progress.


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Paul Virilio was made director of the Ecole speciale d'architecture in Paris in 1975. He has written sixteen books including War and Cinema, Open Sky and The Information Bomb

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5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting and penetrating critique of "progress"., 13 Jun 2009
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This is an insightful, bioethical analysis of history in which Virilio shows in some detail how techno-scientific solipsism has led to world domination not (just) by the Darwinian strongest but by the ethically rudderless madness of the strongest. A madness which has effectively reversed the old biblical sins of greed, envy, violence etc. He looks at the power of the media - the contemporary veneration of abnormal personalities, the role of advertising in the creation of behaviour, and how political power is obtained through optical rather than political correctness. And he is very eloquent on the role of modern technology, such as the internet, in effacing our personalities and capacity for critical thinking. A word of warning however: Virilio's ideas can be at times difficult to access. This is due to a number of factors: his often very academic register, the occasional use of words which are not contained in the (Chambers) English dictionary, and a presupposition of extensive intellectual knowledge on the reader's part. (His extensive analysis of capitalism's colonisation of art and artists, for example, assumes a wide awareness of a variety of art-forms both past and present.) His explorations are most interesting and relevant though: such forthright criticisms, analyses and resistance of so-called progress being most necessary at this point in time.
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