Description
A biting meditation on Progress technoscientific progress, at any cost and without any limits this book defines the ways in which postindustrial science has merged with out-and-out hyperterrorism to threaten the foundations of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian civilization, and the future of the planet with them, through innovation of mass catastrophes that are part and parcel of its panoply of inventions.
Urging us to face up to the consequences of our brave-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.
About the Author
Paul Virilio, The European Graduate School
Reviews
"Virilio's breakneck pattern-recognition method is apt to spark new thoughts in some readers' heads."
Steven Poole, The Guardian
Paul Virilio is one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the contemporary era. In The Original Accident Virilio continues his investigations of how the intensification of technological development and speed could provide the "accident of accidents", the catastrophic collapse of the global economy."
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles
Book Information
ISBN 9780745636146
Author Paul Virilio
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Polity Press
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 163g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 9mm
