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• 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.

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  Animal, Technology, Air

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• 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.

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  Religious, Thinking, Technology

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• The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

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  Stupid, Men, Racism

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• Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

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  Territory, Sovereignty, Inherent

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• One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

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  Mean, Reality, Sahara Desert

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• Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle cameras on rockets so that it would be possible to watch the sky.

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  Sky, Telescopes, Rockets

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• 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.

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  Couple, Technology, Animal

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• For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on.

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  Tanks, Movement, Territory

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• As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.

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  Ideas, Oil, Logistics

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• Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

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  Fall, Science, Aggravation

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.2, Verso

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• 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.

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  War, Stress, Mean

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• 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.

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  Believe, Technology, Reality

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• War is cinema, and cinema is war

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  War, Cinema

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• 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.

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  Sex, Eye, Data

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• Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.

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  Perception, Information, Troops

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

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  Technology, Reality, Attempting

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• The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.

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  Names, Voice, Waiting

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• 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.

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  Memories, Powerful, Technology

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• One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

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  Real, Winning, One Day

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• People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.

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  Sex, Fun, Distance

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

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  Sides, Wealth, Speed

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

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• 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.

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  Eye, Balloons, Weapons

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

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• Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

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  Together, Tribes, Regions

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• The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels completely lost. But then, once you have learnt how to drive, the whole van is in your body. It is integrated into your body.

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  Car, Body, Dimensions

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• Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Cyberspace, Accidents

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