Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826479341)

Desert Screen is a vision of future war, in which Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning-point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio argues that we live in a world of global sptio-temporal collapse, a world still exhausted from the geopolitics of the Cold War, a world in which the politics of military and media technology seem to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy. Virilio's original and far-reaching analysis is vital for an understanding of the current Middle East crisis. Paul Virilio (1932-) is Director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris and author of over 15 books including Art and Fear, Negative Horizon, War and Cinema and Open Sky.

Author: Paul Virilio
ISBN-10: 0826479340
ISBN-13: 9780826479341
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2005
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.51d