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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
January 1, 2001
Pages
82
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859847749
ISBN-10
1859847749
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.75 by 8 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
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Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$50.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies shrouded the Kosovo war, Paul Virilio here makes a trenchant denunciation of its perpetration.
Written with his characteristic flair, Virilioâs latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies wrapped the war, Virilio demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather than ethical considerations. Beneath the humanitarian rhetoric, Virilio sees a sinister innovation in the methods of waging war: territorial space is being replaced by orbital space in which a system of global telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of bombers and missiles. Governments, the military and the media are becoming part of a seamless and self-justifying process linked by new information and arms technologies. Passionate and political, Strategy of Deception is a vital examination not only of the war in Yugoslavia but also what Virilio calls our âfin-de-siecle infantilisationâ in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.
Written with his characteristic flair, Virilioâs latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict. Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies wrapped the war, Virilio demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather than ethical considerations. Beneath the humanitarian rhetoric, Virilio sees a sinister innovation in the methods of waging war: territorial space is being replaced by orbital space in which a system of global telesurveillance is linked to the destructive power of bombers and missiles. Governments, the military and the media are becoming part of a seamless and self-justifying process linked by new information and arms technologies. Passionate and political, Strategy of Deception is a vital examination not only of the war in Yugoslavia but also what Virilio calls our âfin-de-siecle infantilisationâ in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.
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Hardcover
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from Verso Books (January 1, 2001)
9781859847749 | details & prices | 82 pages | 5.75 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $50.00
About: Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.
About: Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.
Paperback
from Verso Books (January 1, 2007)
9781844675784 | details & prices | 120 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.30 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $12.95
With Chris Turner (other contributor) |
from Verso Books (December 1, 2000)
9781859843017 | details & prices | 82 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.
About: Drawing on events and bombing during the war in Kosovo, aruges that governments, the military, and the media use information and arms technology in war to weave a system of global telesurveillance.
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