A landscape of events / Paul Virilio ; translated by Julie Rose.

Author
Virilio, Paul [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000]
  • ©2000
Description
xiii, 99 p. ; 21 cm.

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      Writing architecture [More in this series]
      Summary note
      The celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p.98-[100]).
      Contents
      • The big night
      • The avant-garde of forgetting
      • Delirious New York
      • The imbalance of terror
      • The near-death experience
      • A glimpse
      • Light time
      • The accident museum
      • Peace of nerves
      • The fire tomorrow
      • Mass murderer
      • The immaterials of war
      • Probable imminence.
      ISBN
      • 0262720345 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780262720342 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      00045210
      OCLC
      44934377
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