Desert Screen

Desert Screen is a vision of future war. Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio argues that we live in a world still exhausted from the geopolitics of the Cold War, a world in which the politics of military and media technology seem to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy. This new translation of an already classic text includes a new interview with Virilio in which he looks back at a decade of war at the speed of light.>

About the author

Paul Virilio (1932-2018) was one of our foremost cultural critics. Architect and urban planner and former director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, he has written widely on film, architecture, art, war and technology.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Virilio
• Assisted by: Michael Degener (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9780826479341
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-7934-1
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers S.; Athlone Contemporary European; Athlone Contemporary European; Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers S.; Continuum Impacts
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Vietnam, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, USA, Vietnamkrieg, Moderne Kriegsführung