Cover; Series List; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Figures; Contributors; 1 Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture; 2 The Illusions of Zero Time; 3 Towards a New Ecology of Time; 4 Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception; 5 Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge'; 6 Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War; 7 History in the 'Mise en Abyme of the Body': Ranbir Kaleka and the 'Art of Auschwitz' after Virilio
8 Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul's Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost9 The Event; 10 The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art; 11 What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation; 12 Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide; 13 The Production of the Present; Index
This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling rea
