Paul Virilio

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Paul Virilio (born January 4, 1932 in Paris ; † September 10, 2018 there ) was a French philosopher and critic of the media society . Virilio was best known as a simulation , virtuality and speed theorist as well as the founder of dromology .

Life

Virilio, whose father had fled from Italy to France as a communist before the fascist regime , studied architecture and urbanism and trained as a master glass maker. During the Second World War , in Nantes , he saw the city being bombed by Allied planes . He did his military service as a cartographer in Freiburg im Breisgau and in the Algerian War. He worked as an architect, urban planner, exhibition maker, studio manager and member of the editorial team of various magazines. In 1976 his exhibition on "Bunker Archeology" took place in the Center Georges Pompidou .

Virilio was professor from 1969 and director of studies from 1973 at the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. In 1979 he founded the Center interdisciplinaire de recherche de la paix et d′études stratégiques (“Interdisciplinary Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies”) together with Alain Joxe . He retired in 1997 and has since devoted himself to his dromological research.

Quotes

Virilio on the Second Gulf War in 1991: "The message of this media war is less about informing about the reality of the current fighting than about promoting the possibility of future wars" .

Awards

  • 1987: the French "Great National Prize for Architectural Criticism " ( Le grand prix national de la critique est décerné à l'unanimité à Paul Virilio, par les ministères de l'équipement, du logement et de l'aménagement du territoire et des transports )
  • 1992: Siemens Media Art Prize

Fonts

  • Bunker archeology (= Série des catalogs du Center de Création Industrielle du Center Georges Pompidou. 1). Center Georges Pompidou, Center de Création Industrielle, Paris 1975, ISBN 2-85850-001-0 .
  • Essai sur l'insécurité du territoire. Stock, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-234-00499-3 .
  • Vitesse et politique. Essai de dromologie. Gallimard, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-7186-0079-9 .
    • German: speed and politics. An essay on dromology (= Merve title. 90). Merve Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-88396-010-1 .
  • Défense populaire et luttes écologiques. Galilée, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-7186-0108-6 .
  • Drive, drive, drive ... (= International Marxist Discussion. 80). Merve Verlag, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-88396-000-4 .
  • Esthetique de la disparition. Balland, Paris 1980, ISBN 2-7158-0286-2 .
    • German: Aesthetics of Disappearance (= International Merve Discourse. 132). Merve Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88396-052-7 .
  • with Sylvère Lotringer : Pure was. Semiotexts, New York NY 1983, ISBN 0-936756-03-9 .
    • German: The pure war (= Merve title. 116). Merve Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88396-036-5 .
  • La crise des dimensions. The representation de l'espace et la notion de dimension. École Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris 1983.
  • L'Espace critique. Essai. Bourgois, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-267-00363-5 .
  • Guerre et cinéma. Volume 1: Logistique de la perception (= Cahiers du Cinéma. Essais. 3). Éditions de l'Étoile, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-86642-014-4 (Nouvelle édition augmentée. Cahiers du cinéma, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-86642-108-6 ).
    • German: war and cinema. Logistics of perception. Hanser, Munich et al. 1986, ISBN 3-446-14510-9 .
  • L'Horizon negatif. Essai de dromoscopie (= Débats. 34). Galilée, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-7186-0271-6 .
    • German: The negative horizon. Movement, speed, acceleration. Hanser, Munich et al. 1989, ISBN 3-446-15005-6 .
  • La machine de vision. Galilée, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-7186-0341-0 .
    • German: Die Sehmaschine (= International Merve Discourse. 149). Merve Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88396-069-1 .
  • L'Inertie polar. Essai. Bourgois, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-267-00887-4 .
  • L'écran du desert. Chroniques de guerre. Galilée, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7186-0398-4 .
  • "The unreal monument". The Einstein Tower (= International Merve Discourse. 165). Merve Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88396-091-8 .
  • L'art du moteur. Galilée, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7186-0426-3 .
    • German: The conquest of the body. From super-human to over-excited human. Hanser, Munich et al. 1994, ISBN 3-446-17817-1 .
  • La vitesse de liberation. Essai. Galilée, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7186-0458-1 .
  • with Claude Parent : “Architecture Principe”. 1966 et 1996. Les Éditions de l'Imprimeur, Besançon 1996, ISBN 2-910735-22-2 .
    • German: Architecture principe. 1966 and 1996. Les Éditions de l'Imprimeur, Besançon 2000, ISBN 2-910735-22-2 .
  • Cyber ​​moons, la politique du pire. Entretien avec Philippe Petit. Les Éditions Textuel, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-909317-21-8 .
    • German: Cyberworld, the worst policy knowingly. A conversation with Philippe Petit (= International Merve Discourse. 331). Merve Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88396-268-9 .
  • Un paysage d'evénements. Galilée, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-7186-0479-4 .
  • with Marianne Brausch: Voyage d'hiver. Entretiens. Editions Parenthèses, Marseille 1997, ISBN 2-86364-610-2 .
  • La bombe informatique. Galilée, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7186-0507-3 .
    • German: Information and Apocalypse. In: Information and Apocalypse. The strategy of deception. Hanser, Munich et al. 2000, ISBN 3-446-19860-1 .
  • Strategy de la reception. Galilée, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7186-0524-3 .
    • German: The strategy of deception. In: Information and Apocalypse. The strategy of deception. Hanser, Munich et al. 2000, ISBN 3-446-19860-1 .
  • La procédure silence. Galilée, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7186-0522-7 .
    • German: Die Kunst des Schreckens (= International Merve Discourse. 238). Merve Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88396-171-X .
  • Ce qui arrive. Galilée, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7186-0569-3 .
  • Ville panique. Ailleurs commence ici. Galilée, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7186-0591-X .
  • L'accident originel. Galilée, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7186-0659-2 .
  • L'art à perte de vue. Galilée, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7186-0687-8 .
  • L'université du désastre. Galilée, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7186-0722-1 .
  • Le Futurisme de l'instant. Stop eject. Galilée, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-7186-0788-7 .
  • Le grand accélérateur. Galilée, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7186-0826-6 .
  • Le littoral, la dernière frontière. Entretien avec Jean-Louis Violeau. Sens & Tonka, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-84534-231-6 .
    • German: The coast, last frontier. An interview with Jean-Louis Violeau. Turia + Kant, Vienna / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-85132-771-7 .

literature

  • Paul Virilio speaks to Heinz-Norbert Jocks. University of Misfortune. About war, space and time and dying by the sea in La Rochelle. Lettre International, Berlin, pp. 24–31, 2018, ISSN 0945-5167
  • Armitage (Ed.): Paul Virilio. From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (= Theory, Culture & Society. ). Sage Books, London et al. 2000, ISBN 0-7619-5901-7 .
  • Dirk Michael Becker: Botho Strauss. Dissipation. The dissolution of word and object. Transcript, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89942-232-5 (also: Mainz, University, dissertation, 2003).
  • Ingeborg Breuer, Peter Leusch, Dieter Mersch (Eds.): Worlds in the head. Profiles of contemporary philosophy. Volume 1: France / Italy (= Rotbuch-Taschenbuch. 1046). Rotbuch-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88022-368-8 .
  • Stefan Breuer : The nihilism of speed. On the work of Paul Virilio. In: Stefan Breuer: The society of disappearing. About the self-destruction of technical civilization. Junius, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-88506-202-X , pp. 131-156.
  • Dietmar Kamper , Christoph Wulf (Ed.): The dying time. 20 diagnoses (= Luchterhand collection. 724). Luchterhand, Darmstadt et al. 1987, ISBN 3-472-61724-1 .
  • Kay Kirchmann: Views from the bunker. Paul Virilio's theory of time and media from the perspective of a philosophy of the unconscious. Verlag Internationale Psychoanalyse, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-608-91940-6 .
  • Daniela Kloock , Angela Spahr: Media Theories. An introduction (= UTB . 1986). 3rd, updated edition. Fink, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8252-1986-4 .
  • Steve Redhead: Paul Virilio. Theorist for an Accelerated Culture. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2004, ISBN 0-7486-1928-3 .
  • Richard Reschika : The delusional principle of speed - Paul Virilio and the phantasmagoria of modernity. In: Richard Reschika: Philosophical adventurers. Eleven profiles from the Renaissance to the present (= UTB. 2269). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-16-147586-0 , pp. 258-283.
  • Florian Rötzer : French philosophers in conversation. Boer, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-924963-21-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architect and philosopher Paul Virilio ist tot , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on September 18, 2018
  2. ^ Paul Virilio: War and television (= Fischer 13778 Forum Wissenschaft. Kultur & Medien ). Translated from the French by Bernd Wilczek. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13778-0 , p. 60.
  3. ↑ Only this volume appeared.
  4. ↑ First published in: Leviathan - Berlin Journal for Social Science . Volume 16, No. 3, 1988, pp. 309-330, JSTOR 23983436 .
  5. ↑ These are Jean Baudrillard , Cornelius Castoriadis , Jacques Derrida , Emmanuel Levinas , Jean-François Lyotard , Gérard Raulet , Michel Serres and Paul Virilio.
personal data
SURNAME Virilio, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect, philosopher, essayist and critic of the media society
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2018
Place of death Paris