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Title: Open Sky by Paul Virilio, Julie Rose ISBN: 1-85984-181-3 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Classically cybertheory, Classically French
Comment: This book was recommended by a couple of artist/art critic friends who found it engrossing, but difficult to work through. (They do not have an extensive Internet/technology background, but eat French theory for breakfast.j
A few years of online work and an interest in the implications of the increasing importance of tech. mediation of our environment/communication were rewarded (in my case) by Virilio's intriguing discourses--essays, really-- on how we perceive and relate to the world.
The one section on the globalization of the economy, though, was so off-base, I can only attribute it to the French academic community's expertise in theory and absolute cluelessness with real life (see: French economy).
-greg allen
Rating: 5
Summary: His fears are our hopes...
Comment:
This is mostly a book on cyberculture. Its French title is _La Vitesse de libération_, which translates as "Escape Velocity". Hard luck: Mark Dery independently chose the same title for _his_ essay on cyberculture, so even though Virilio's opus predates Dery's, its translation must come out with a different title.
I read it in French when it was published. As an avid reader of cyberculture, I found _Open Sky_ very well informed indeed. Paul Virilio, however, is no fan of computers: He feels sheer panic in front of the virtualization of society. This is what makes his book so exhilarating to read: I suppose I felt the same as an amateur of military history craving for Waterloos from Napoleon's point of view or Little Big Horns through Custer's eyes.
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Title: Speed & Politics by Paul Virilio ISBN: 0936756330 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Virilio Reader (Blackwell Readers) by Paul Virilio, James Der Derian, James Der Derian ISBN: 1557866538 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: Art and Fear by Paul Virilio, Julie Rose ISBN: 0826460801 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson, N. M. Paul, W. S. Palmer ISBN: 0942299051 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 08 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio ISBN: 1570270414 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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