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The Art of the Motor Paul Virilio |
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A new view of space and time for the information age. A major new work—and a best-seller in France—by one of the most exciting figures in contemporary French thought, this book asks how technology has changed the way we understand the world. The Art of the Motor conjures a world in which information is speed and duration is no more. Information as speed? This, Paul Virilio tells us, is the third dimension of matter, replacing old notions of information as mass and energy. He details the ways in which this change has led to a new visual regime—a serialization of images and sound that permits an extraordinary manipulation of both the form and the content of messages. According to Virilio, the incredible pace of the mutation of appearances—made possible by the "art of the motor"—ends up mutating reality itself. The political ramifications of this change become clear as Virilio describes how social processes and institutions respond to dominant models of visualization. “Virilio is perhaps the most original among an increasing number of architects-urbanites wrting about media and communication today, and The Art of the Motor is a thought-provoking book.” —Journal of Communication “This is Virilio at his best.” —Theory and Event Paul Virilio is an urbanist, architect, and writer who lives and teaches at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. His works in English include The Aesthetics of Disappearance (1991) and Bunker Archeology (1994). Julie Rose is a writer and translator. She recently translated The Vision Machine (1994), also by Paul Virilio. 168 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 | 1995 |
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$18.50 Paper