Desert Screen : War at the Speed of Light (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers S.) - Softcover

Virilio, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082645822X ISBN 13: 9780826458223

Publisher: Mansell Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

"One of the most original thinkers of our time." - Liberation "Virilio writes on the edge of physics, philosophy, politics and urbanism" - New Statesman Desert Screen is a vision of future war. Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio argues that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, a world still exhausted from the geopolitics of the Cold War, a world in which the politics of military and media technology seem to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy.

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About the Author

Paul Virilio is Director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris and author of over fifteen books including War and Cinema and Open Sky.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mansell Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082645822X
• ISBN 13: 9780826458223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208