Virilio Live

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VIRILIO LIVE:
Selected Interviews
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Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, Culture & Society caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within
contemporary social science and the humanities. Building on the heritage of
classical social theory, the book series examines ways in which this tradition
has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists. It also publishes theoreti-
cally informed analyses of everyday life, popular culture, and new intellectual
movements.
EDITOR: Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University
SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD
Roy Boyne, University of Durham
Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen
Scott Lash, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh
Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge
THE TCS CENTRE
The Theory, Culture & Society book series, the journals Theory, Culture &
Society and Body & Society, and related conference, seminar and postgraduate
programmes operate from the TCS Centre at Nottingham Trent University.
For further details of the TCS Centre’s activities please contact:
Centre Administrator
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Nottingham Trent University
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VIRILIO LIVE:
Selected Interviews
edited by John Armitage
SAGE Publications
London l Thousand Oaks l New Delhi
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© Selection and editorial matter, John Armitage 2001
First published 2001
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication data
A catalogue record for this book is
available from the British Library
ISBN 0 7619 6859 8
ISBN 0 7619 6860 1 (pbk)
Library of Congress control number 2001131844
Typeset by Line Arts, Pondicherry.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press,
Gateshead
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Preface
by Paul Virilio xi
Introduction
by John Armitage 1
PART ONE: ON THEORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Interview 1: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond
John Armitage 15
PART TWO: ON ARCHITECTURE
Interview 2: Paul Virilio and the Oblique
Enrique Limon 51
Interview 3: The Time of the Trajectory
Andreas Ruby 58
PART THREE: ON SPEED-SPACE AND CHRONOPOLITICS
Interview 4: Speed-Space
Chris Dercon 69
Interview 5: Perception, Politics and the Intellectual
Niels Brügger 82
Interview 6: The Information Bomb: A Conversation
Friedrich Kittler 97
PART FOUR: ON ART, TECHNOCULTURE AND THE
INTEGRAL ACCIDENT
Interview 7: Paul Virilio
Jérôme Sans 113
Interview 8: Paul Virilio
Dominique Joubert and Christiane Carlut 121
Interview 9: The Dark Spot of Art
Catherine David 128
Interview 10: Landscape of Events Seen at Speed
Pierre Sterckx 144
Interview 11: Not Words But Visions!
Nicholas Zurbrugg 154
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vi CONTENTS
PART FIVE: ON THE STRATEGIES OF DECEPTION
Interview 12: The Kosovo
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This book is dedicated to Julie Lawrence, my sister
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
An editorial task of this extent is inevitably a cooperative endeavour. I want
to offer my deepest thanks to Paul Virilio, who not only gave me his permis-
sion to publish his words in this book but who also took time out from a fren-
zied writing schedule to produce the Preface for it. Mike Gane and Nicholas
Zurbrugg commented on an earlier draft of the Introduction. To Mike and
Nicholas my sincere thanks. Thanks are also due to Douglas Kellner for refer-
eeing Virilio interviews in German. Additionally, I owe a debt of gratitude to
Mike Featherstone, the editor of Theory, Culture and Society, and to Chris
Rojek, senior commissioning editor at Sage, for encouraging my work on
Virilio from the beginning.
To the Virilio interviewers, translators and publishers, dispersed across the
world, and who gave their work and permissions, a genuine thank you. How-
ever, I was not able to locate all the interviewers, translators and publishers of
the interviews published in this volume. On behalf of Sage Publications, I
would like to say that every effort has been made to trace all the copyright
holders of the material reprinted herein, but if any have been inadvertently
overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrange-
ments at the first opportunity. For their willingness to allow either the publi-
cation of an interview originally published in a language other than English or
an interview that has not been published previously, I would especially like to
thank Andreas Ruby, Niels Brügger and Nicholas Zurbrugg.
I am particularly grateful to Patrice Riemens, the Scarlet Pimpernel of
cyberspace, who translated Virilio’s Preface, various Virilio interviews, and
who offered sometimes-dizzying dromological companionship in Amsterdam
and Paris. My colleagues in the Division of Government and Politics at the
University of Northumbria, UK and, in particular, John Fenwick and Ken
Harrop provided much-appreciated intellectual, financial and administrative
support. I am also grateful to Arthur Affleck. His research assistance was
invaluable in the final stages of the preparation of this book. Lastly, I want to
extend my heartfelt thanks to my partner in love, life and the odd academic
crime, Joanne Roberts. On numerous occasions, Joanne generously put her
own research aside to comment on many of the draft sections of this book.
John Armitage
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