University of Disaster
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745645046 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Another Great Virilio Book" according to John David Ebert. Virilio's latest book is an examination of the state of the planet and the humanities, both under siege by the arrogance of Big Science gone out of control, endocolonizing the body and dreaming of fantasies of exocolonizing outer space. The book is full of the same old brilliant Virilianisms: his wonderful point, for instance, about how the first ph. Paul virilio in excellent form Paul Larcombe A really well written and interesting translation on virilios more recent work, also see steve redheads Paul virilio reader for more back ground if interested in this wonderfully insightful philosopher
An unanticipated victim of this geophysical foreclosure is science - not only biology but also physics, the "Big Science" now confronted by the space-time contraction of the known world and of knowledge once acquired here below. Whence the threat, still unnoticed, of an accident in knowledge which will double the accident of polluted substances and put paid to this crisis of reason denounced by Husserl, with the extravagant quest for a substitute exoplanet, a new "Promised Land" to be colonised as swiftly as possible; the climate necessary to the life of our minds, as much as to the life of our bodies, from then on, on this old Earth of ours, being like the fatal consequences of a long illness requiring hospitalisation.. "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, today 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, a dromosphere, where depletion of the time distances involved in the geodiversity of the Globe rounds off the depletion of the substances produced by biodiversity
'Whether analyzing anthropology or philosophy, architecture, poetry, war, or geopolitics, Paul Virilio's The University of Disaster employs a razor-sharp intellect and remarkable scholarship. It reveals contemporary French critical cultural theory to be a startling yet insightful field for anybody concerned with the global debates on technoscience, subjectivity, reality, and temporality.'John Armitage, Northumbria University'Paul Virilio has long been one of the most fascinating and provocative thinkers of our contemporary moment. Once again, Virilio reveals himself to be a major theorist of our era whose thought continues to develop novel positions and provocations in the new millennium.'Douglas Kellner, UCLA. In The University of Disaster, Virilio advances his thinking on the crises of the pr
. Paul Virilio is former Director of the École spéciale d'architecture in Paris