Conducting technologies<i>virilio's and latour's philosophies of the present state</i>

Crawford, T. Hugh

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“…For Virilio, war is a primus motor for technological development and the laboratory (in its broadest possible term) wherein new technologies are tested, evaluated and further developed. Crawford (1999) …”

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Knowledge management and the vision machine: Paul Virilio and the technological constitution of knowledge

Styhre

2006

Knowl Process Manag

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Knowledge management has become an influential discourse within the field of management studies. Even though there are several competing perspectives and views of the notion of knowledge and its use in organization, there is relatively little emphasis on the relationship between the use of technological systems and the constitution of knowledge. This paper suggests that the writing of Paul Virilio, a though-provoking French social and cultural theorist, may serve as a source of influence in a more active engagement with understanding the relationship between technology and knowledge. Drawing on two studies of knowledge in use in organizations, one in the domain of the juridical system and the other in new drug development in pharmaceutical industry, the paper points at the importance of integrating technologies into the analysis of how knowledge is produced.

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Knowledge management and the vision machine: Paul Virilio and the technological constitution of knowledge

Styhre

2006

Knowl Process Manag

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“…14 That Virilio appears unwilling to explore the tensions arising from his episodic historiography is only part of the problem with this account of technology's recent incursions into the human. The claim that the human is vanishing into the technological is, as Hugh T. Crawford points out, part of a 'romantic yearning for a fullness of time outside of the very socio-technical assemblages responsible for building time in the first place', 18 and his sense of outrage 'depends on a notion of human nature outside the technologies within which it circulates'. 19 In other words, when Virilio challenges the cultural transformations that stem from the cinematic acceleration of vision -when he mourns, in John Armitage's words, the 'almost total collapse of the distinction between the human body and technology' 20 Verhoeven's film is that the film speculates on the transformation of daily life by future technologies, and this film itself relies upon advanced imaging techniques.…”

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Teach phenomenology the bomb: Starship Troopers, the technologized body, and humanitarian warfare

Leonard

2005

European Journal of American Culture

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“…Virilio's pessimism in the face of all things technological has been noted by scholars (Redhead, 2004;Cubitt, 2001), as has his moralistic anti-statism (Crogan, 2000;Crawford, 2000;McQuire, 1999). Despite occasional admissions that "all is not negative in the technology of speed.…”

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Geometry of empire

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As far as I know, this project is the first sustained treatment of logistical media. Logistical media mimic the communicative cosmos. They intrude, almost imperceptibly, on our experiences of space and time, even as they represent them. They are devices of cognitive, social, and political coordination that are so fundamentally communications media that they intersect and envelop much of our lives without our conscious awareness. Lighthouses, clocks, global positioning systems, temples, maps, calendars, telescopes, and highways are just a few of them. In modern terms logistical media are at once bureaucratic and militaristic. They intersect issues of social organization, power, and economics. My tidy description of logistical media is this: logistical media are media of orientation. They have to do with order and arrangement first, and representation second, if at all. This study will reveal the critical and historical impact of radar as a logistical medium, as a technological architecture that was developed for national defense and to remotely survey the earth and its atmosphere, but that also contributes to the endocolonization of the "masses" and controls their collisions with "others." Principally I am interested in how historical objects, including those from MIT's Radiation Laboratory in the 1940s, inform what Walter Benjamin (1999) theorized as the now, in how their arrangement as a dialectical image or constellation can momentarily disrupt our sense of chronological progress and denaturalize ideology. In its simplest form radar is an application of electromagnetic waves for purposes of communication, a fact not lost on

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Conducting technologiesvirilio's and latour's philosophies of the present state

Cited by 4 publications

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Knowledge management and the vision machine: Paul Virilio and the technological constitution of knowledge

Knowledge management and the vision machine: Paul Virilio and the technological constitution of knowledge

Teach phenomenology the bomb: Starship Troopers, the technologized body, and humanitarian warfare

Geometry of empire

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