The Virilio Dictionary

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The first dictionary dedicated to the pioneering work of French art and technology critic Paul VirilioGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748646845','ISBN:9780748646852','ISBN:9780748646838','ISBN:9780748682317']);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 FeaturesOver 100 entries cover every major Virilian subject and idea, showing how each functions within his philosophy in all of his writing to dateClearly 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 thoughtFull List of EntriesAAccident • Accident of Art • Accident Museum • Accident of Science • Aesthetics of Disappearance • Architecture • Art • Art of the MotorBBaudrillard, Jean • Body • Bunker ArcheologyCCatastrophe • Chronopolitics • Church of Saint-Bernadette Du Banlay • Cinema • City • City of Panic • Claustropolis • Critical Space • Cybernetic, Cybernetics • CyberspaceDDecomposition • Deleuze, Gilles • Desert Screen • Deterritorialisation • Dromology • Dromoeconomics • Dromomania, Dromomaniacs • Dromoscopy • DromosphereEEndo-Colonisation • Escape Velocity • Events • Eye LustFFast Feminism • Fear • Feminism • Foreclosure • FuturismGGlobalisation • Great Accelerator • Grey Ecology • Ground ZeroHHusserl, Edmund • HypermodernismIInformation BombKKittler, Friedrich, ALLandscape of Events • Law of Proximity • Logistics of PerceptionMMass Individualism • Media • Merleau-Ponty, Maurice • Military–Industrial Complex • Military Space • Modernity, Modernism • Movement, MobilityNNegative HorizonOOptics • Orbital Space • Original Accident • Overexposed CityPPerception • Phenomenology • Picnolepsy • Pitiless Art • Place • Polar Inertia • Political Economy of Speed • Politics • Politics of the Very Worst • Postmodernity, Postmodernism • Propaganda of Progress • Pure WarRReal Time • Resistance • Revolutionary, RevelationarySSedentariness • Space-Time • Speed • Speed-Space • State • State of Emergency • Stereo-Reality • Stop-Eject • Strategy of the Beyond • Suicidal StateTTechnology • Tendency • Territory • Theory • Third Interval • TrajectoryUUltracity • Unknown Quantity • University of DisasterVVision Machine • Virtual RealityWWar • WritingContributorsJason Adams, Williams College, USAOlga Alekseeva-Carnevali, Lancaster University, UKJohn Armitage, Northumbria University, UKJohn Beck, Newcastle University, UKJosiane Behmoiras, The University of Melbourne, AustraliaShannon Bell, York University, Toronto, CanadaRyan Bishop, University of Southampton, UKRob Bullard, Teesside and Northumbria Universities, UKDrew S. Burk, Univocal PublishingDavid B. Clarke, Swansea University, UKFelicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKVerena Andermatt Conley, Harvard University, USATom Conley, Harvard University, USAGerry Coulter, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, CanadaPaul Crosthwaite is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UKSean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths University of London, UKHugh Davis, La Trobe University, Melbourne, AustraliaMarcus A. Doel, Swansea University, UKJohn David Ebert, independent American scholar and author of five booksMark Featherstone, Keele University, UKBrianne Gallagher, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USAMike Gane, Loughborough University, UKJoy Garnett, artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York, USAPhil Graham, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaChris Hables Gray, University of California at Santa Cruz and California State University at Monterrey Bay, USABob Hanke, York University, Toronto, CanadaRobert Hassan, University of Melbourne, AustraliaIngrid Hoofd, National University of SingaporeIan James, University of Cambridge, UKGeorge Katsonis, King’s College London, UKScott McQuire, University of Melbourne, AustraliaNicholas Michelson, King’s College London, UKEftychia Mikelli, BCA College, Athens, GreeceNick Prior, University of Edinburgh, UKRonald E. Purser, San Francisco State University, USAJulian Reid, University of Lapland, FinlandStephen Sale, London Consortium, UKGregor Schuner, University of LuxembourgRichard G. Smith, Swansea University, UKEric Wilson, Monash University, Melbourne, AustraliaJ. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University, USAMay Ee Wong, University of California Davis, USAMark Wright, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK