Ebook: The Virilio Dictionary

The first dictionary dedicated to the pioneering work of French art and technology critic Paul Virilio

In Virilio's writings, meanings and interpretations are often difficult and ambiguous. This dictionary guides you through his concepts with headwords including Accident, Body, Cinema, Deterritorialization and Eugenics. Explore the very edge of Virilio’s pioneering thought in cultural and social theory with the entries on Foreclosure, Grey Ecology, Polar Inertia and the Overexposed City.

The Virilio Dictionary is ideal for anyone wanting to keep up with Virilio's dynamic program for the study of postmodern culture.

Key Features

• Over 100 entries cover every major Virilian subject and idea, showing how each functions within his philosophy in all of his writing to date
• Clearly written and cross-referenced entries make it quick and easy for you to find what you’re looking for and follow the threads of Virilio’s thought

Full List of Entries

A

Accident • Accident of Art • Accident Museum • Accident of Science • Aesthetics of Disappearance • Architecture • Art • Art of the Motor

B

Baudrillard, Jean • Body • Bunker Archeology

C

Catastrophe • Chronopolitics • Church of Saint-Bernadette Du Banlay • Cinema • City • City of Panic • Claustropolis • Critical Space • Cybernetic, Cybernetics • Cyberspace

D

Decomposition • Deleuze, Gilles • Desert Screen • Deterritorialisation • Dromology • Dromoeconomics • Dromomania, Dromomaniacs • Dromoscopy • Dromosphere

E

Endo-Colonisation • Escape Velocity • Events • Eye Lust

F

Fast Feminism • Fear • Feminism • Foreclosure • Futurism

G

Globalisation • Great Accelerator • Grey Ecology • Ground Zero

H

Husserl, Edmund • Hypermodernism

I

Information Bomb

K

Kittler, Friedrich, A

L

Landscape of Events • Law of Proximity • Logistics of Perception

M

Mass Individualism • Media • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice • Military–Industrial Complex • Military Space • Modernity, Modernism • Movement, Mobility

N

Negative Horizon

O

Optics • Orbital Space • Original Accident • Overexposed City

P

Perception • Phenomenology • Picnolepsy • Pitiless Art • Place • Polar Inertia • Political Economy of Speed • Politics • Politics of the Very Worst • Postmodernity, Postmodernism • Propaganda of Progress • Pure War

R

Real Time • Resistance • Revolutionary, Revelationary

S

Sedentariness • Space-Time • Speed • Speed-Space • State • State of Emergency • Stereo-Reality • Stop-Eject • Strategy of the Beyond • Suicidal State

T

Technology • Tendency • Territory • Theory • Third Interval • Trajectory

U

Ultracity • Unknown Quantity • University of Disaster

V

Vision Machine • Virtual Reality

W

War • Writing

Contributors

• Jason Adams, Williams College, USA
• Olga Alekseeva-Carnevali, Lancaster University, UK
• John Armitage, Northumbria University, UK
• John Beck, Newcastle University, UK
• Josiane Behmoiras, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Shannon Bell, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Ryan Bishop, University of Southampton, UK
• Rob Bullard, Teesside and Northumbria Universities, UK
• Drew S. Burk, Univocal Publishing
• David B. Clarke, Swansea University, UK
• Felicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Verena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University, USA
• Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA
• Gerry Coulter, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
• Paul Crosthwaite is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK
• Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths University of London, UK
• Hugh Davis, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
• Marcus A. Doel, Swansea University, UK
• John David Ebert, independent American scholar and author of five books
• Mark Featherstone, Keele University, UK
• Brianne Gallagher, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA
• Mike Gane, Loughborough University, UK
• Joy Garnett, artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Phil Graham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Chris Hables Gray, University of California at Santa Cruz and California State University at Monterrey Bay, USA
• Bob Hanke, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Robert Hassan, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Ingrid Hoofd, National University of Singapore
• Ian James, University of Cambridge, UK
• George Katsonis, King’s College London, UK
• Scott McQuire, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Nicholas Michelson, King’s College London, UK
• Eftychia Mikelli, BCA College, Athens, Greece
• Nick Prior, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Ronald E. Purser, San Francisco State University, USA
• Julian Reid, University of Lapland, Finland
• Stephen Sale, London Consortium, UK
• Gregor Schuner, University of Luxembourg
• Richard G. Smith, Swansea University, UK
• Eric Wilson, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• J. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University, USA
• May Ee Wong, University of California Davis, USA
• Mark Wright, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK