Paul Virilio Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• 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

  Technology, Negativity, Progress

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

• I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality for an actual reality. And this is more than a phase: it's a definite change.

  Paul Virilio

  Believe, Technology, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

• There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization.

  Paul Virilio

  Couple, Technology, Animal

  Source: ctheory.net

• Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Light, Today

  Source: ctheory.net

• These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.

  Paul Virilio

  Powerful, Technology, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

• Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.

  Paul Virilio

  Memories, Powerful, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Responsibility, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Real, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Research, Body

  Source: ctheory.net

• The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Reality, Attempting

  Source: ctheory.net

• The territorial body has been polluted by roads, elevators, etc. Similarly, our animal body starts being polluted. Ecology no longer deals with water, flora, wildlife and air only. It deals with the body itself as well. It is comparable with an invasion: technology is invading our body because of miniaturisation.

  Paul Virilio

  Animal, Technology, Air

  Source: ctheory.net

• If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Military, Moving

  Source: ctheory.net

• Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Technology, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

• The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Technology, Unique

  Source: ctheory.net

• What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, War, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God.

  Paul Virilio

  Religious, Thinking, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

• What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Technology, World

  Source: ctheory.net

• In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Order, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

• I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Book, Communication, Technology

  Source: ctheory.net

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