Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio is one of the most significant and stimulating French cultural theorists writing today. Increasingly hailed as the 'archaeologist of the future', Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world.

The first book to afford a properly critical evaluation of Virilio's cultural theory, it includes an interview with Virilio; a recently translated example of his work; and a select bibliography of his writings. The commissioned contributions by leading cultural and social theorists examine Virilio's work from his early speculations on military and urban space to his current writings on dromology, politics, new communications technologies, disappearance, and the fallout from `the information bomb'.

Introduction - John Armitage
From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond - John Armitage
An Interview with Paul Virilio
'Indirect Light' Extracted from Polar Inertia - Paul Virilio
Virilio and Architecture - Neil Leach
Paul Virilio's Bunker Theorizing - Mike Gane
Virilio, War and Technology - Douglas Kellner
Some Critical Reflections
Virilio and New Media - Sean Cubitt
Blinded by the (Speed of) Light - Scott McQuire
The Tendency, the Accident and the Untimely - Patrick Crogan
Paul Virilio's Engagement with the Future
Virilio, Stelarc and 'Terminal' Technoculture - Nicholas Zurbrugg
The Passenger - Verena Andermatt Conley
Paul Virilio and Feminism
The Conceptual Cosmology of Paul Virilio - James Der Derian
Paul Virilio - John Armitage
A Select Bibliography