Lost Dimension - Softcover

Virilio, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570270449 ISBN 13: 9781570270444

Publisher: Semiotext, 1991

Synopsis

To read these five essays of 1983 is to begin to come to terms with the theoretical cataclysm of the present. In Lost Dimension, Paul Virilio considers the displacement of the concept of dimensional space by Einsteinian space/time as it is related to the transparent boundaries of the postmodern city and contemporary economy. Virilio imagines a coming world of interactive, informational networks offering a prison-house of illusionary transcendence. He pictures global terrorism (perpetrated by and against technological states) filling up the surreal void of an abandoned real. In a multidisciplinary excavation of contemporary physics, architecture, esthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio traces the dystopic unity of the contemporary Western predicament with lightning prescience and clarity.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e).

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Semiotext
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1570270449
• ISBN 13: 9781570270444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148