Virilio Now Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies

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English | ISBN: 0745648770 | 2011 | 232 pages | PDF | 104 MB
Since 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
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