Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space', `chronopolitics', art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and `hypermodernism', the time of the trajectory and the `information bomb'. His thoughts on Foucault, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, the performance artist Stelarc, the Persian War and the Kosovo War, are also gathered together.
John Armitage is Principal Lecturer in politics and media studies at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Preface - Paul Virilio Introduction - John Armitage PART ONE: ON THEORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY Interview One: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond - John Armitage PART TWO: ON ARCHITECTURE Interview Two: Paul Virilio and the Oblique - Enrique Limon Interview Three: The Time of the Trajectory - Andreas Ruby PART THREE: ON SPEED-SPACE AND CHRONOPOLITICS Interview Four: Speed-Space - Chris Dercon Interview Five: Perception, Politics and the Intellectual - Niels Br[um]ugger Interview Six: The Information Bomb - Friedrich Kittler PART FOUR: ON ART, TECHNOCULTURE AND THE INTEGRAL ACCIDENT Interview Seven: Paul Virilio - J[ac]er[ci]ome Sans Interview Eight: Paul Virilio - Dominique Joubert & Christiane Carlut Interview Nine: The Dark Spot of Art - Catherine David Interview Ten: Landscape of Events Seen at Speed - Pierre Sterckx Interview Eleven: Not Words but Visions! - Nicholas Zurbrugg PART FIVE: ON THE STRATEGIES OF DECEPTION Interview Twelve: The Kosovo W@r Did Take Place - John Armitage Suggested Further Reading Select Bibliography of the Works of Paul Virilio - John Armitage
`Read Virilio at his spoken best: accelerated, corrosive, prophetic. Virilio is trying to wake up everyone that slumbers as the information bomb disappears the autonomous subject, trivializes democratic politics, and turns Western ways of war into a videogame. Drivign a stake into the heart of the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, Virilio Live could well be the best possible antidote yet for the virtually undead' - James Der Derian, editor of The Virilio Reader `The spontaneity of the interview form brings otu the best in Virilio. This is an indispensable guide to the work and thought of one of the most important contemporary thinkers. A lively and thought-provoking collection, it will be welcomed by initiates and newcomers alike' - Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
