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Book SynopsisPaul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio then goes on to argue that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, and one which seems to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy.
Trade Review"'one of the most original thinkers of our time'. Liberation; 'Virilio writes on the edge of physics, philosophy, politics and urbanism'. New Statesman"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface by James Der Derian; Desert Screen; I Foreword; II August 1990: Desert Shield; III January 1991: Desert Storm; IV June 1991: Desert Screen; V Virilio Looks Back and Sees the Future: Interview by James Der Derian (2000); Notes; Index
