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Tag Archives: Paul-Virilio

Simon Norfolk – channeling Virilio?

The supercomputer at the Wellcome Trust’s Sangar Institute, Cambridge, UK. It’s taken a few days, but I finally found the time to read BLDGBLOG’s substantial interview with the “landscape photographer” Simon Norfolk, who is attempting — with considerable success, I … more…

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Modern Enchantments

Modern Enchantments James Flint reviews what looks very much like a revisionist account of the power of media in Simon During’s Modern Enchantments, which provides lots of interesting material from the history of (secular) illusionism, but argues that audiences are … more…

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Paul Virilio on 9/11

Brief but pertinent comments from Paul Virilio on 911 and after – “A Crash of Strategic Thought?” (Autonomedia info exchange, via nettime)

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