Overview

In Virilio's writings, meanings and interpretations are often difficult and ambiguous. Now, this dictionary explains every major Virilian subject and idea, showing how each functions within his philosophy. Among the concepts are entries on Accident, Body, Cinema, Dromology, and Eugenics, together with Virilian ideas at the forefront of his pioneering thinking in cultural and social theory such as Foreclosure, Grey Ecology, Polar Inertia, Logistics of Perception and the Overexposed City.

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Author:   John Armitage (Professor of Media Arts, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) ,  Jason Adams ,  Olga Alekseeva-Carnevali ,  John Armitage
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.518kg
ISBN:  

9780748646845

ISBN 10:   0748646841
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   13 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A; Accident; Accident of Art; Accident Museum; Accident of Science; Aesthetics of Disappearance; Architecture; Art; Art of the Motor; B; Baudrillard, Jean; Body; Bunker Archeology; C; Catastrophe; Chronopolitics; Church of Saint-Bernadette Du Banlay; Cinema; City; City of Panic; Claustropolis; Critical Space; Cybernetic, Cybernetics; Cyberspace; D; Decomposition; Deleuze, Gilles; Desert Screen; Deterritorialisation; Dromology; Dromoeconomics; Dromomania, Dromomaniacs; Dromoscopy; Dromosphere; E; Endo-Colonisation; Escape Velocity; Events; Eye Lust; F; Fast Feminism; Fear; Feminism; Foreclosure; Futurism; G; Globalisation; Great Accelerator; Grey Ecology; Ground Zero; H; Husserl, Edmund; Hypermodernism; I; Information Bomb; K; Kittler, Friedrich, A; L; Landscape of Events; Law of Proximity; Logistics of Perception; M; Mass Individualism; Media; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice; Military-Industrial Complex; Military Space; Modernity, Modernism; Movement, Mobility; N; Negative Horizon; O; Optics; Orbital Space; Original Accident; Overexposed City; P; Perception; Phenomenology; Picnolepsy; Pitiless Art; Place; Polar Inertia; Political Economy of Speed; Politics; Politics of the Very Worst; Postmodernity, Postmodernism; Propaganda of Progress; Pure War; R; Real Time; Resistance; Revolutionary, Revelationary; S; Sedentariness; Space-Time; Speed; Speed-Space; State; State of Emergency; Stereo-Reality; Stop-Eject; Strategy of the Beyond; Suicidal State; T; Technology; Tendency; Territory; Theory; Third Interval; Trajectory; U; Ultracity; Unknown Quantity; University of Disaster; V; Vision Machine; Virtual Reality; W; War; Writing.

Reviews

"Finally all the facets of Paul Virilio's visionary work expertly analysed and summarised in one book. A truly amazing project which reads like science-fiction in the present tense.-- ""Sylvere Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder, Semiotext(e)"" Paul Virilio is one of the most provocative and original thinkers of the contemporary era, and The Virilio Dictionary, expertly edited and introduced by John Armitage, provides a splendid over-view and presentation of the key concepts and ideas proliferating in Virilio's diverse and multifaceted works. The entries are clear and engaging, and provide an excellent access to one of the key thinkers of our time.-- ""Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, UCLA"""

Author Information

John Armitage is Emeritus Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Luxury Philosophy (Bloomsbury 2025) and Luxury and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury 2020), and is on the editorial boards of journals such as Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, and Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal.

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