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Paul Virilio
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“The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications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 (1932–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1932–2018) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89
“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 (1932–2018) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 18
“Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.”
Paul Virilio (1932–2018) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30
“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 (1932–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pure War (2008), p. 183
“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.”
Paul Virilio (1932–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a caste of "technology monks" is being created in our times, and that there exist monasteries of sorts whose goal it is to pave the way for a new kind of "civilisation"; one that has nothing to do with civilisation as we remember it. The work of these technology monks is not carried out in the way that it was in the Middle Ages. Rather, it is carried out through the revaluation of knowledge, like that achieved for Antiquity. The contribution of monks to the rediscovery of Antiquity is well known... And with information monotheism comes what I think of as the greatest danger of all, the slide into a future without humanity.”
Paul Virilio (1932–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source