Virilio Paul
Virilio Paul - Strategy Of Deception - Paperback
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Description: A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war and its reduction to images on a screen Written with his characteristic flair Virilio's latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo warv in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the US a and its allies wrapped the war Virilio demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather than ethical considerations. Beneath the humanitarian rhetoric Virilio sees a sinister innovation in the methods of waging war: territorial space is being replaced by orbital space in which a system of global telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of bombers and missiles. Governments the military and the media are becoming part of a seamless and self - justifying process linked by new information and arms technologies. Passionate and political Strategy of Deception is a vital examination not only of the war in Yugoslavia but also what Virilio calls our fin - de - si cle infantilization in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.
Title: Strategy Of Deception
Author(s): Virilio Paul
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675784
Pages: 82 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2007
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 02
Category: Theory Of Warfare & Military Science
Description: A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war and its reduction to images on a screen Written with his characteristic flair Virilio's latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo warv in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the US a and its allies wrapped the war Virilio demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather than ethical considerations. Beneath the humanitarian rhetoric Virilio sees a sinister innovation in the methods of waging war: territorial space is being replaced by orbital space in which a system of global telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of bombers and missiles. Governments the military and the media are becoming part of a seamless and self - justifying process linked by new information and arms technologies. Passionate and political Strategy of Deception is a vital examination not only of the war in Yugoslavia but also what Virilio calls our fin - de - si cle infantilization in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.
Title: Strategy Of Deception
Author(s): Virilio Paul
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844675784
Pages: 82 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2007
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 02
Category: Theory Of Warfare & Military Science
