Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio
Born4 January 1932
Died10 September 2018(2018-09-10) (aged 86)
Paris, France
Alma materUniversity of Paris
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Christian anarchism
Phenomenology (early)
Main interests
Aesthetics, urbanism, philosophy of Technology, philosophy of war
Notable ideas
Dromology • Aesthetics of disappearance • Logistics of perception
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Paul Virilio (French: [viʁiljo]; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018)[3] was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military. Virilio was a prolific creator of neologisms, most notably his concept of "Dromology", the all-around, pervasive inscription of speed in every aspect of life.

According to two biographers, Virilio was a "historian of warfare, technology and photography, a philosopher of architecture, military strategy and cinema, and a politically engaged provocative commentator on history, terrorism, mass media and human-machine relations."[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lacy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne (eds.), Architecture as Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice, Routledge, 2004, ch. 7.
  3. ^ Mort de Paul Virilio, penseur de l'accélération du monde (in French)
  4. ^ Tim Luke & Gearóid Ó Tuathail (2000) "Thinking Geopolitical Space: The spatiality of war, speed and vision in the work of Paul Virilio", in Thinking Space, Mike Crang & Nigel Thrift editors, Routledge, page 361

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