Paul Virilio

“The acceleration of history is the acceleration of its end.”

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”

“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”

“We are no longer in the politics of party, but in the politics of speed.”

“There is no such thing as globalization, there is only virtualization. It is a fake world.”

“The war of time and speed has replaced the war of space.”

“The administration of fear is the new form of power.”

“We're entering a world where there won't be one but two realities: the real and the virtual.”

“The original accident has been replaced by the integral accident.”

“To tell the truth is to become a traitor to the world of speed.”

“The contemporary city is a space of flows, not a space of places.”

“Information is the continuation of war by other means.”

“Democracy has to be watched, it has to be kept alive.”

“The end of geography is the beginning of the end of the world.”

“Today, everything is about speed and not about the thing. In the end, it’s a defeat of the object.”

“The city is a crash, a catastrophe in slow motion.”