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The Information Bomb

By Paul Virilio

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2005
ISBN
1844670597, 9781844670598
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8849938 bytes)
Series
Radical Thinkers
Pages
160\160
Time added
2016-09-27 15:35:48

Description

"Civilization or the militarization of science?" With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives ... and deaths. After the era of the atomic bomb, Virilio posits an era of genetic and information bombs which replace the apocalyptic bang of nuclear death with the whimper of a subliminally reinforced eugenics. We are entering the age of euthanasia.These exhilarating bulletins from the information war extend the range of Virilio's work. The Information Bomb spans everything from Fukuyama to Larry Flynt, the Sensation exhibition of New British Art to space travel, all seen through the optic of Virilio's trenchant and committed theoretical position.

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