John Armitage 
Virilio Live 
Selected Interviews

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

John Armitage is Principal Lecturer in politics and media studies at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.