Paul Virilio quotes

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
-- Paul Virilio

#War #University

The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
-- Paul Virilio

#Real #Knowing #People

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
-- Paul Virilio

#Sides #Wealth #Speed

All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
-- Paul Virilio

#Military #Class #Knowing

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
-- Paul Virilio

#Light #World #Doe

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
-- Paul Virilio

#War #Mean #Politics

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
-- Paul Virilio

#Fall #Effectiveness #Grace

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
-- Paul Virilio

#Together #Tribes

War is cinema, and cinema is war
-- Paul Virilio

#War #Cinema

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.
-- Paul Virilio

#Reality #Light #World

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.
-- Paul Virilio

#Dream #Eye #Blind

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.
-- Paul Virilio

#Technology #Negativity #Progress

Images contaminate us like viruses.
-- Paul Virilio

#Viruses

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
-- Paul Virilio

#Inspirational #Ships #Invention

The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.
-- Paul Virilio

#Names #Voice #Waiting