Virilio and Visual Culture by John Armitage
This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology of the present period. Re-conceptualising the most enduring philosophical conventions on everything from technology and photography to literature, anthropology, cultural, and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.
The diversity of the contributors in this collection testifies to Virilio’s rich life of intellectual engagement, from the 1950s and his writings on architecture through to the 1980s and his more celebrated contributions to debates on the sociocultural effects of cinematics, vision technologies, surveillance and the role of accelerated cultural developments in advanced societies.. There is much in these essays to satisfy the high theorist and researcher, and also the museum curator, painter and student of visual culture. As Sylvère Lotringer claims, this work is a ‘breakthrough in Virilio Studies’. I agree and it is long overdue. -- Enda Mccaffrey, Nottingham Trent University * Modern & Contemporary France *
Finally all the facets of Paul Virilio's visionary work expertly analyzed and summarized in one book. A truly amazing project which reads like science-fiction in the present tense. * Sylvere Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder of Semiotext(e) *
Finally all the facets of Paul Virilio's visionary work expertly analyzed and summarized in one book. A truly amazing project which reads like science-fiction in the present tense. * Sylvere Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder of Semiotext(e) *
John Armitage is Emeritus Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Luxury Philosophy (Bloomsbury 2025) and Luxury and Visual Culture (Bloomsbury 2020), and is on the editorial boards of journals such as Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, and Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal. Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Art and Politics at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK) and Research Associate at Witwatersrand University (South Africa). His most recent book projects are Cold War Imaginaries: Technology, Temporality, Culture (co-edited with John Beck forthcoming 2026 Edinburgh University Press) and Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology and the Military-Industrial Avant-garde (co-authored with John Beck, Duke University Press 2020). Bishop is lead editor of the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP) and the book series associated with the journal (Duke UP) and the series “Technicities” (co-edited with Jussi Parikka, Edinburgh University Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748654451 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748654453 |
| Title | Virilio and Visual Culture |
| Author | John Armitage |
| Series | Critical Connections |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2013-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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