Sun 3 Jan 2010
The Accelerated Virtualization of the Horizon of Globalization
Posted by Kathryn della Bitta under computers, cosmopolitanism, future, globalization, information, mass culture, monumentality, new, omniscient perspective, phantasmagoria, power, sameness, scale, space, spectacle, speed, technology, Virilio, world pictureNo Comments
“[In our era] the computer screen [becomes] the ultimate window, but a window [that] not so much allow[s] you to receive data as to view the horizon of globalization, the space of its accelerated virtualization…”
Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso, 2000), 16.