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• There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.

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  War, Home, Army

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• Television can only destroy.

  Paul Virilio

  Television

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• Creation exists only in regard to destruction. Creation is against destruction.

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  Creation, Destruction, Regard

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• The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.

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  Men, Important, Earth

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• I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

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  Photography, Reality, Thinking

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• Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.

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  War, Space, Significance

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

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  Technology, Research, Body

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

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  Mean, Research, Revolution

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• The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

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  Thinking, Media, Refugee

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• The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.

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  Real, Creation, Form

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• We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

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  Risk, Asian, Financial

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• I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

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  Military, War, Believe

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

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  Impact, Research, Territory

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• Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident.

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  Warfare, Bombs, Surveillance

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• For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of landmines. For example, when the French troops went into Kosovo they were told that they were going to enter in half-tracks, over the open fields. But their leaders had forgotten about the landmines. And this was a major problem because, these days, landmines are no longer localized.

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  Gps, Track, Leader

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• GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo possible.

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  Gps, Track, Car

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• GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

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  War, Gps, Roles

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• The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

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  War, Cnn, Space

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• Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing one of the best armies in the world, without appreciating their freedom to move!

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  Moving, Army, Boys

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• For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.

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  War, World, Use

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• Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

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  War, Army, Territory

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• Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.

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  War, Reality, Faces

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• In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer resides in the extension of territory.

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  Real, Territory, Way

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