Virilio Live

Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space', `chronopolitics', art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and `hypermodernism', the time of the trajectory and the `information bomb'. His thoughts on Foucault, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, the performance artist Stelarc, the Persian War and the Kosovo War, are also gathered together.

Preface - Paul Virilio
Introduction - John Armitage
PART ONE: ON THEORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Interview One: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond - John Armitage
PART TWO: ON ARCHITECTURE
Interview Two: Paul Virilio and the Oblique - Enrique Limon
Interview Three: The Time of the Trajectory - Andreas Ruby
PART THREE: ON SPEED-SPACE AND CHRONOPOLITICS
Interview Four: Speed-Space - Chris Dercon
Interview Five: Perception, Politics and the Intellectual - Niels Br[um]ugger
Interview Six: The Information Bomb - Friedrich Kittler
PART FOUR: ON ART, TECHNOCULTURE AND THE INTEGRAL ACCIDENT
Interview Seven: Paul Virilio - J[ac]er[ci]ome Sans
Interview Eight: Paul Virilio - Dominique Joubert & Christiane Carlut
Interview Nine: The Dark Spot of Art - Catherine David
Interview Ten: Landscape of Events Seen at Speed - Pierre Sterckx
Interview Eleven: Not Words but Visions! - Nicholas Zurbrugg
PART FIVE: ON THE STRATEGIES OF DECEPTION
Interview Twelve: The Kosovo W@r Did Take Place - John Armitage
Suggested Further Reading
Select Bibliography of the Works of Paul Virilio - John Armitage