Product Description

This work spans everything from Fukuyama to Larry Flint, the Sensation exhibition of New British Art to space travel, all seen through the optic of Virilio's trenchant and committed theoretical position.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1851830 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-05
• Original language: French
• Binding: Hardcover
• 145 pages

Review
"Anyone who has ever secretly wished that Foucault would get to the point will relish the sudden hooks and jabs of revealed sense." - New York Times "Virilio makes his prose do somersaults through flaming conceptual hoops, inventing new words to explain ideas that would be difficult to reach is the trip weren't so much fun." - Metro Santa Cruz "One of the most original thinkers of our time." - Liberation

From the Back Cover
"Civilization or the militarization of science?" With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives . . . and deaths. After the era of the atomic bomb, Virilio posits an era of genetic and information bombs which replace the apocalyptic bang of nuclear death with the whimper of a subliminally reinforced eugenics. We are entering the age of euthanasia.

These exhilarating bulletins from the information war extend the range of Virilio's work. The Information Bomb spans everything from Fukuyama to Larry Flynt, the Sensation exhibition of New British Art to space travel, all seen through the optic of Virilio's trenchant and committed theoretical position.

"Virilio writes in the subversive tradition of Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard and Theodore Roszak." Publishers Weekly

"One of the most original thinkers of our time." - Liberation

About the Author
Paul Virilio studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, and trained as an artist in stained glass. In 1975, he was made director of the Ecole Special d'Architecture in Paris. His many books include War and Cinema and Open Sky, both from Verso.

Customer Reviews

Virilio forces you rethink the future of information society
I've read before Virilio's "Escape Velocity" which I think was a good but not necessary help to really get into this piece of work. Some concepts of EV were used in "Information Bomb" but I guess they can be understood quite easily anyway.

For those who don't like typical French metaphors I wouldn't recommend this book but for those like me who do these images make us think ourselves instead of reading ready-made answers.

As I am a nearly-graduated MSc in control engineering IF forces me to rethink about work I'm going to do and usefulness and motivation of research in this area. Take all the promises of information society (and tehcnical development as whole)...:
All the promises are exposed to be just over-optimistic dreams and what carries on is nothing but short memory and childish eagerness to reach for the limits of information highway.
Don't mention Lysenko and michurinism..