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Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!
Paul Virilio
# Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!
**Paul Virilio**
The twin phenomena of immediacy and of instantaneity are presently one of the most pressing problems confronting political and military strategists alike. Real time now prevails above both real space and the geosphere. The primacy of real time, of immediacy, over and above space and surface is a fait accompli and has inaugural value (ushers a new epoch). Something nicely conjured up in a (French) advertisement praising cellular phones with the words: "Planet Earth has never been this small". This is a very dramatic moment in our relation with the world and for our vision of the world.
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Something is hovering over our heads which looks like a "cybercult". We have to acknowledge that the new communication technologies will only further democracy if, and only if, we oppose from the beginning the caricature of global society being hatched for us by big multinational corporations throwing themselves at a breakneck pace on the information superhighways.
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Translator's Notes
1. "Le temps unique" in French. This is an obvious reference to Ignacio Ramonet's now quasi-paradigmatic editorial "La pensee unique" - the one-idea-system., in Le Monde Diplomatique, January 1995 (cf. CTHEORY, Event-Scene 12, "The One Idea System").
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3. En anglais dans le texte. On this subject, see for example Esther Dyson's interview with "Newt" in Wired 3.08, August 1995.
Paul Virilio is the emblematic French theorist of technology. His major works include: Pure War, Speed and Politics, and War and Cinema: the Logistics of Perception. Two of his most recent books are Desert Screen and The Art of The Engine. This article appeared in French in Le Monde Diplomatique, August 1995.
>Paul Virilio is the emblematic French theorist of technology. His major works include: Pure War, Speed and Politics, and War and Cinema: the Logistics of Perception. Two of his most recent books are Desert Screen and The Art of The Engine. This article appeared in French in Le Monde Diplomatique, August 1995.
Translated by Patrice Riemens, University of Amsterdam.
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