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Book SynopsisSince the publication in 1975 of Paul Virilio''s
Bunker Archeology, the range of Virilio''s critical works and their impact is now clear within a variety of subjects. Making astonishing interventions into art and architecture, geography, cultural studies, media, literature, aesthetics, and sociology, the momentous implications of which have yet to be entirely understood, Virilio is the cultural theorist for our troubled twenty-first century.
Responding to this growing interdisciplinary interest, Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies comprises Sean Cubitt''s critical overview of Virilio''s oeuvre, an important newly translated text by Virilio interrogating the impact of contemporary art, and eight other major original essays by noted scholars on the wide scope of Virilio''s writings, inclusive of Adam Sharr on Virilio and the architect Peter Zumthor''s Bruder Klaus chapel, and Nigel Thrift''s crucial assessment of Virilio''s City of Panic. Substan
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"John Armitage's Virilio Now brings together lively and provocative contemporary perspectives on Virilio's work. The editor's introduction and interview with Virilio provide an illuminating overview of this provocative and original thinker, while the articles are engaging and original, providing up-to-date takes on diverse and important themes engaged in Virilio's multifaceted works."
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
"John Armitage's Virilio Now, a masterfully edited collection of essays based on one of the most provocative critics of our time, engages, complements and even contests Paul Virilio's multifaceted work on technology, art, architecture, urban and visual studies in compelling and far-reaching ways. This book will be a valuable and an enduring point of reference."
Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University
"Paul Virilio is a complex and important thinker, difficult to categorize, and ranging creatively across the worlds of art, architecture, technology, and much more. John Armitage has succeeded in bringing together a group of contributors who do real justice to Virilio's work, with both critical enthusiasm and engaged and thoughtful critique."
Kevin Robins, Goldsmith's College, London
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xi
1 Paul Virilio: A Critical Overview 1
John Armitage
2 The Third War: Cities, Conflict and Contemporary Art: Interview with Paul Virilio 29
John Armitage
3 Burning Bruder Klaus: Towards an Architecture of Slipstream 46
Adam Sharr
4 Vector Politics and the Aesthetics of Disappearance 68
Sean Cubitt
5 Virilio’s Media as Philosophy 92
Scott McQuire
6 Empathetic Vision: Aesthetics of Power and Loss 115
Elin O’Hara Slavick
7 Panicsville: Paul Virilio and the Aesthetic of Disaster 145
Nigel Thrift
8 Three Theses on Virilio Now 158
Arthur Kroker
9 The Accident of Finance 177
Paul Crosthwaite
10 Virilio and Visual Culture: On the American Apocalyptic Sublime 200
Joy Garnett and John Armitage
11 Impact Studies 234
Paul Virilio
Index 239
