Paul Virilio

b in 1932, in Paris (F) and lives in La Rochelle (F). Essayist, philosopher and media critic. Emeritus Professor at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, and chairman and director of the same institution from 1968 to 1998. He became editor of the Espace Critique collection at Editions Galilée in 1973 after the publication of his first philosophical essays. In 1990, he became programme director at the Collège International de Philosophie. Paul Virilio is an essayist with a special interest in urbanism and the strategic implications of new technologies. In addition to his numerous books, he has published widely in French and international journals. His research on the archeology of bunkers, published in 1975, led him to the theory of dromology, the science of the human impulse to wander, travel and flee. Speed and war, the information media and social changes are his most prominent themes. Many publications a. o.: Speed and Politics, Semiotext(e), New York, 1986; War and Cinema—The Logistics of Perception, London, 1989; Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles, Semiotext(e), New York, 1990; The Lost Dimension, Semiotext(e), New York, 1991; The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Semiotext(e), New York, 1991; The Vision Machine, Bloomington, Indiana, 1994; Bunker Archeology, New York, 1994; Open Sky, London, 1997; Politics of the Very Worst, Semiotext(e), New York, 1998; The Information Bomb, London, 1999; The Strategy of Deception, London, 2000; A Landscape of Events, London/Cambridge, MA., 2000; Ground Zero, London, 2002.