Quotes from Paul Virilio

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

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.

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.