#virilio

Man, fascinated with himself, constructs his double, his intelligent specter, and entrusts the keeping of his knowledge to a reflection. We're still here in the domain of cinematic illusion, of the mirage of information precipitated on the computer screen what is given is exactly the information but not the sensation; it is apatheia, this scientific impassibility which makes it so that the more informed man is the more the desert of the world expands around him, the more the repetition of information (already known) upsets the stimuli of observation, overtaking them automatically, not only in memory (interior light) but first of all in the look, to the point that from now in it's the speed of light itself which limits the reading of information and the important thing in electronic information is no longer the storage but the display.

Before it became the throne of totality, the Christian sanctuary was a stronghold, a bunker, a fortified church for those who remained within it; all their powers and capacities were deployed and strengthened in, through and as combat" (1986: 38).

They used to say peace lasts longer than war. This was almost true in the area of nuclear dissuasion, before the new news networks were in place, which no truce, no peace can possibly effect. Subject to the tyranny of real time, the media are no longer now fighting all that endures, peace along with the rest. Now it is the media who no longer have any more time, no time to delay.

I am a citizen of the world, I do not want the return to nationalism, but tomorrow we only love the one who is far away without being aware that we hate our neighbor because he is present, because he sucks, because he makes noise, because he annoys me and because he requires me , unlike the one that is far away, from which I can get free, if tomorrow if we insist on preferring the one who is far away to the detriment of the one near, we will destroy the city, that is, the right to the city