Paul Virilio Quotes About Speed

Quotes about: Speed

• Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Space, Today

  Source: ctheory.net

• The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Doe, World

• Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

  Paul Virilio

  Sides, Wealth, Speed

  Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (1997). “Pure war”, Semiotext

• As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Long, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

• While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.

  Paul Virilio

  Losing, Speed, Natural

• For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

  Paul Virilio

  Book, Bridges, Microsoft

  Source: ctheory.net

• I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

  Paul Virilio

  Mean, Research, Revolution

  Source: ctheory.net

• Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

  Paul Virilio

  Impact, Research, Territory

  Source: ctheory.net

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

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Light, Today

  Source: ctheory.net

• As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Doe, World

  Source: ctheory.net

• Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

  Paul Virilio

  Reality, Light, World

  Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard (2012). “The Administration of Fear”, p.41, MIT Press

• Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Shapes, Speed

  Source: ctheory.net

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