La bomba informatica

Ako se držimo onoga što je Virilio (u)mislio, živimo u vremenu posle informatičke bombe. Zapravo, živimo informatičku bombu. Ovo je doba preplavljenosti, ubrzanja, globalnih vibracija i zujanja bez premca u istoriji. Da stvar bude još gora, obilje medijski plasiranih informacija nema za cilj to da s Leggi tutto

The book is printed handsomely, and I would buy others in this series, particularly the volume of Derrida's. Further, Virilio offers genuine insight into the dangers of a hyper-connected global economy. He should be perhaps be read as an anti-technocracy/pro-regulation thinker of merit. That's as far Leggi tutto

If you are seeking prescriptive solutions or a historical/social/psychological analysis of how we ended up erasing "here" for "now," you won't be happy. But this is invaluable and precious as a map-making resource, of describing processes and trends which usually lurk in the subconscious and manifes Leggi tutto

All these reviews saying Virilio got it all wrong - I must have read a different book. On a difficulty scale of 1 to 10 (normalized for French theorists), The Information Bomb is maybe a 4 or 5. Not that dense. I still think this is a very important book that reveals a hinge moment in which many pos Leggi tutto

Just wait till the bro hears about rule 34

I expected that this book would talk about the acceleration of modern society due to technological excesses - instead it talks in length about television and Hollywood in banal detail. The predictions made are all wrong, and the writer uses a bric-a-brac of sharply contrasting ideas that grate again Leggi tutto

ناقد للتكنولوجيا المسيطرة باعتبارها أداة من أدوات التحكم، وانتهاء عصر الخصوصية وأثر هذا على خيال ونفسية الإنسان وكيف أن الإنسان (المستهلك للميديا) الحالي يعاني نقص من تفاعلات معينة أصبحت من الماضي بسبب تغول هذه الأدوات.. وعلاقة التكنولوجيا بالعلوم، وكيف تكاد تسلب العالِم وظيفته التاريخية وتورط المس Leggi tutto

Virilio's book is a critique of media, technology and the collective (un)conscious much in the vein of Marshall McLuhan - his predecessor by decades - and a comparison between the two is enlightening. The Information Bomb speeds along, bolding and italicizing all the way, introducing neologisms and

Virilio just says stuff sometimes and like it just makes no sense then he moves on without elaboration and pretends it never happened. Still I love him and he predicts everything correctly lol. Science’s complicity with the atrocities of the 20th century, and also the humanities’, is the best point Leggi tutto