Description
| Product ID: | 9780826479341 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Continuum Impacts |
| Title: | Desert Screen |
| Subtitle: | War at the Speed of Light |
| Authors: | Author: Paul Virilio |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Subjects: | Asian history, Asian history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Vietnam War |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio then goes on to argue that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, and one which seems to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy. Desert Screen is a vision of future war, in which Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning-point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio argues that we live in a world of global sptio-temporal collapse, a world still exhausted from the geopolitics of the Cold War, a world in which the politics of military and media technology seem to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy.Virilio''s original and far-reaching analysis is vital for an understanding of the current Middle East crisis.Paul Virilio (1932-) is Director of the Ecole Speciale d''Architecture in Paris and author of over 15 books including Art and Fear, Negative Horizon, War and Cinema and Open Sky. |
| Imprint Name: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-03-01 |
