Paul Virilio Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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

  Dream, Eye, Blind Spots

• From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.

  Paul Virilio

  Eye, Balloons, Weapons

  Paul Virilio (1989). “War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception”, p.3, Verso

• We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

  Paul Virilio

  Eye, Reality, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

• Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.

  Paul Virilio

  Sex, Eye, Data

  Source: ctheory.net

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