Abstract:Where once the polis inaugurated a political theatre, with its agora and its forum, now there is only a cathode-ray screen, where the shadows and spectres of a community dance amid their processes of disappearance… (Virilio, 1991: 19) Paul Virilio engages consistently with the military-industrial complex of the modern technologic city and the dangers of the resulting 'abandoned real '. In Lost Dimension (1991), he points to the growing lack of 'plenum', space that should be filled with (human) matter and su… Show more
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