Strategy of deception

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Sinopse

A trenchant critique of new techniques of waging war, and its reduction to images on a screen.Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies shrouded the Kosovo war, Paul Virilio here makes a trenchant denunciation of its perpetration.Written with his characteristic flair, Virilio's latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies wrapped the war, Virilio demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather than ethical considerations. Beneath the humanitarian rhetoric, Virilio sees a sinister innovation in the methods of waging war: territorial space is being replaced by orbital space in which a system of global telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of bombers and missiles. Governments, the military and the media are becoming part of a seamless and self-justifying process linked by new information and arms technologies.Passionate and political, Strategy of Deception is a vital examination not only of the war in Yugoslavia but also what Virilio calls our 'fin-de-siecle infantilisation' in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.

Participantes

Autor: Paul Virilio

Tradutor: Chris Turner

Autor

PAUL VIRILIO

Paul Virilio nasceu em Paris em 1932, de pai italiano refugiado político e mãe bretã. Arquiteto, urbanista, filósofo, ex-diretor da Escola de Arquitetura de Paris, especialista em questões estratégicas, tem se destacado como um dos principais ensaístas sobre os meios de comunicação, a "guerra da informação" e o mundo cibernético. Nos últimos anos, Paul Virilio vem se notabilizando como uma voz cética, quase uma nova dissidência, frente a uma sociedade desenfreadamente informatizada e onde o cidadão é vítima de um constante bombardeio (des)informacional.