The Paul Virilio Reader

by Steve Redhead, Paul Virilio, Steve Redhead & Paul Virilio

Book Overview

If nothing else, the war in Iraq and the 1991 Gulf War have taught us much about media and technology as key players in how war is waged, packaged for public consumption, and exported in real time to the rest of the globe. A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has keenly observed that media images quite often constitute a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. For more than fifty years Virilio has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231134835
• ISBN13: 9780231134835
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher