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Lost Dimension

Pocket
Engelsk
Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Lost Dimension
Lost Dimension
  • Forfatter: Paul Virilio
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 192
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
  • EAN: 9781584351177
  • Utgivelsesår: 2012
  • Bidragsyter: Virilio, Paul
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A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.

“Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house that''s been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive technological environment, to regain one''s senses and one''s sense of self.”
—from Lost Dimension

Originally written in French in 1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul Virilio: the one most closely tied to his background as an urban planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates the technologically wired urban space we live in today: a city of permanent transit and internalized borders,