City of Panic

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Paul Virilio

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Description

Translated by Julie Rose City of Panic takes the reader on a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. For Virilio, whose sense of cities was formed by earlier wars, Paris is both the City of Light and the City of Panic. Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th Century. The wanton erasure of the past, the construction of identikit places, the proliferation of gated-communities, the ever-widening net of surveillance, the privatisation of what was public...Now every metropolis is a war zone and every metropolis is the same. In this globalised and militarised everywhere, all citizens are becoming one citizen - saturated, standardised and synchronised - ever more reliant on a media fabricating a world of fear. For the panic of the 21st century is simply the final phase of the pincer movement. Place-less, media-fed, panic-struck - welcome to the desert of the real.

Author Biography:

PAUL VIRILIO is one of our foremost cultural critics. Architect and urban planner and former director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, he has written widely on film, architecture, war and technology. Translated by Julie Rose JULIE ROSE is a freelance translator and winner of the PEN Medallion for Translation.

Release date NZ

August 1st, 2005

Author

Paul Virilio

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Translated by Julie Rose

Illustrations

index

Pages

160

Series

Culture Machine

Dimensions

134x189x12

ISBN-13

9781845202248

Product ID

1980835

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