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“There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.”

“The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications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.”

Paul Virilio

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.”

Paul Virilio

Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30

“There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”

Paul Virilio

“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.”

Paul Virilio

Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89

“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.”

Paul Virilio

Pure War (2008), p. 183

“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.”

Paul Virilio

Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 18

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