Paul Virilio - Videos
01/20/2009
Length: 0:05:34
Virilio asks who has the right on behalf of all humanity. to take the risks implicit in the experiments at the LHC at CERN in part of an arte feature on the questions of the potential danger of the LHC experiments. Der bekannte Philosoph Paul Virilio über den Geschwindkeitsbegriff in Bezug auf den Teilchenbeschleuniger des CERN, den LHC (Large Hadron Collider) (In German)
Virilio describes his project for a University of Disaster, where students will come together to discuss the acceleration not only of history of history itself. Virilio's articulates his drormology from the first pgotograph to the real-time media of our age which is leading us to the 'loss of vision'. (in French with English translation)
Virilio warns of the apocalyptic potential of the unbridled accelleration of human knowledge, a dromosphere which reduces the geosphere or the biosphere to nothing. Virilio asserts the need for a critical space, which more than a critical time, has a dimensionality and proportionality. (in French with English translation)
A series of interview clips in which Virilio touches on, among other themes, the futurist pedigree of the Fascist excesses of WWII. the cult-like quality of electronic communication, and Nietzsche's observation on the birth of democracy in the Greek Theater. (in French with English subtitles)