Main entry:

Virilio, Paul.

Title & Author:

A landscape of events / Paul Virilio ; translated by Julie Rose.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000]
©2000

Description:

xiii, 99, [1] pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

Writing architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-100).
The big night -- The avant-garde of forgetting -- Delirious New York -- The imbalance of terror -- The near-death experience -- A glimpse -- Light time -- The accident museum -- Peace of nerves -- The fire tomorrow -- Mass murderer -- The immaterials of war -- Probable imminence.
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Translated from the French.
Translation of: Un paysage d'événements.

Summary:

The celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness.

ISBN:

0262720345 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262720342 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Virilio, Paul.
Technology and civilization.
Civilization, Modern 20th century.
Time Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern 1950- Philosophy.
Event history analysis.
Social conflict.
Time Sociological aspects.
Civilisation 1950- Philosophie.
Événement.
Conflits sociaux.
Temps Aspect sociologique.
Technologie et civilisation.
Civilisation 20e siècle.
Temps Philosophie.
social conflict.
Civilization, Modern Philosophy
Civilization, Modern
Architekturkritik
Architectuurtheorieën.
Filosofische aspecten.
Stedenbouw.

Added entries:

Rose, Julie, 1952-
Writing architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214584
Call No.: NA44.V818.A35 2000
Status: Available