Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light

By Paul Virilio

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826479340
• ISBN13: 9780826479341
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"