{"product_id":"pure-war-new-edition-9781584350590","title":"Pure War, new edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eVirilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn June 2007, Paul Virilio and Sylv re Lotringer met in La Rochelle, France to reconsider the premises they developed twenty-five years before in their frighteningly prescient classic, Pure War. Pure War described the invisible war waged by technology against humanity, and the lack of any real distinction since World War II between war and peace. Speaking with Lotringer in 1982, Virilio noted the \"accidents\" that inevitably arise with every technological development: from car crashes to nuclear spillage, to the extermination of space and the derealization of time wrought by instant communication. In this new and updated edition, Virilio and Lotringer consider how the omnipresent threat of the \"accident\"--both military and economic--has escalated. With the fall of the Soviet bloc, the balance of power between East and West based on nuclear deterrence has given way to a more diffuse multi-polar nuclear threat. Moreover, as the speed of communication has increased exponentially, \"local\" accidents--like the collapse of the Asian markets in the late 1980s--escalate, with the speed of contagion, into global events instantaneously. \"Globalization,\" Virilio argues, is the planet's ultimate accident.Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to an immigrant Italian family. Trained as an urban planner, he became the director of the  cole Speciale d'Architecture in the wake of the 1968 rebellion. He has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both with Sylv re Lotringer and published by Semiotext(e). Sylv re Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed: Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007) and other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including \u003ci\u003eSpeed and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Aesthetics of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Accident of Art, \u003c\/i\u003eall published by Semiotext(e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including \u003ci\u003eSpeed and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Aesthetics of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Accident of Art, \u003c\/i\u003eall published by Semiotext(e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books, including works by Patrick Modiano, Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Roussel, Marguerite Duras, and Paul Virilio. Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he is also the author of \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton \u003c\/i\u003eand other books.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420933787922,"sku":"9781584350590","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08bc4bc4-752a-46bb-94a5-8513b50ba9c6.jpg?v=1729498118","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pure-war-new-edition-9781584350590","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}