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Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II.
In June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the "accidents" that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the "accident"--both military and economic--has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, "local" accidents--like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s--escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. "Globalization," Virilio argues, is the planet's ultimate accident.Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to an immigrant Italian family. Trained as an urban planner, he became the director of the École Speciale d'Architecture in the wake of the 1968 rebellion. He has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both with Sylvère Lotringer and published by Semiotext(e). Sylvère Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007) and other books.

Pure War

History

Paul Virilio

Military

Kabbalist idea read into the new virtual world

Behold Metatron: The Recording Angel

Politics & Social Sciences

Sol Yurick

Philosophy

new edition, w/author's "apology" ten years after

Bolo Bolo

P.M.

Genre Fiction

Rethinking Marxism : Struggles in Marxist Theory; Essays for Harry

Resnick, Stephen

Wolff, Richard

Rethinking Marxism

Politics & Government

Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy

A search for the “poetic facts” of heresy in Islamic history, ranging from “sacred pederasty” in Persian sufism and forbidden imagery in Islamic art to the inner teachings of the Assassins, the heretical influences on Shiite terrorism, and the mystical uses of wine, opium, and hashish.

Wilson, Peter Lamborn

Religion & Spirituality

One of Italy’s leading feminist thinkers critiques the traditional Marxist category of “productive” labor and examines the effects on the capitalist “reproductive” roles of women’s labor and bodies, with illuminating consequences for the received understanding of society and the modern “nuclear” family.

Arcane of Reproduction

Business & Money

Fortunati, Leopoldina

Economics

Islam

The son of long-time French Communist Party chief Maurice Thorez recounts his post-war childhood summers at Artek, the prestigious Crimean summer camp for children of the Soviet elite. A warm, even tender, yet also devastating insight into aspects of Soviet political culture rarely revealed before in the West.

Model Children: Inside the Republic of Red Scarves

Biographies & Memoirs

Thorez, Paul

Leaders & Notable People

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