'The world of the future will be a tighter and tighter struggle against the limits of our intelligence', announced Norbert Wiener. On top of such confinement, we are faced not only with the greenhouse effect of global warming but also that of incarceration within the tighter and tighter limits of an accelerating sphere.

Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But in our media world art has changed, its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics have been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass culture. This work puts art at the centre of politics.

This is a new edition of the book that first introduced Paul Virilio to English readers in 1983. In a series of interviews spanning 25 years, Virilio lays out his essential theses: time has become the ultimate commodity; war is the origin of the city; the distinction between war and peace has eroded; and war as it continues today no longer even needs the participation of people: it has grown into

A look at the ghostly reminders of oppression, the German bunkers from WWII that lie abandoned on the coast of France.

A suggestive analysis of military 'ways of seeing'. It reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.

Explores current scientific, cultural, social and political values, arguing that the events of September 11 reflect both the manipulation of a global sub-proletariat and the delusions of an elite of rich students and technicians.

Applying the theory of dromoscopy to Western political and military history, this book exposes a compulsion to accelerate, and the rise of a politics of time - encapsulated in the importance accorded to speed - over territorial politics of space.

Focusing onto the logistics of perception, this title introduces the author's understanding of 'picnolepsy' - the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it.

First published in France in 1977, this work presents a topological account of the entire history of humanity, honing in on the technological advances made possible through the militarization of society. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and McLuhan, it looks at speed - not class or wealth - as the primary force shaping civilization.

Virilio's exploration of the relationship between technology, speed, war and information technology weaves together a breathtaking worldview of horror, exhilaration and hope.

A critique of information technology and the global media.

Traces the twin development of art and science over the twentieth century. In the author's provocative and challenging vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. It is aimed at those wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us.

The architect, urban planner and philosopher Paul Virilio uses events such as the media coverage of the Gulf War and urban rioting to explore the acceleration of contemporary life during the 1980s and 1990s, a time which he believed reflected the cruelty of an epoch .

The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear. Our lives are surrounded by the threats, imaginary or real, posed by terrorist outrages, natural catastrophes and disasters of all kinds.

Takes the reader on a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. Written in the shadow of war, this work argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th century.

The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear. Our lives are surrounded by the threats, imaginary or real, posed by terrorist outrages, natural catastrophes and disasters of various kinds.

A study of the social destruction wrought by technologies of communication and surveillance. The book explores the growing danger of a generalized accident , provoked by the breakdown of the collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the context of global electronic media.

Offers an examination of modern warfare in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.