Paul Virilio was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. 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.
According to two biographers, Virilio was a "historian of warfare, technology and photography, a philosopher of architecture, military strategy and cinema, and a politically engaged provocative commentator on history, terrorism, mass media and human-machine relations."
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From Ctheory Interview With Paul Virilio 'The Kosovo War Took Place In Orbital Space: Paul Virilio in Conversation with John Armitage' http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=132
“Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.”
Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30
Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89
Pure War (2008), p. 183
Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 18
