“Raging standstill” was the success of the book in the 1990s. Paul Virilio was dedicated to the effects of the acceleration. Now, the French culture is dead critic at the age of 86 years.
Died Paul Virilio, is to become 86-years-old, already on 10. September, as his daughter in Paris announced with a personal statement.
Known, the French philosopher and Urbanist, Paul Virilio, mainly as a cultural critic of the modern Geschwindigkeitswahns. For him, the constant acceleration due to the rapid technical development was triggered by high-speed means of transport, as well as through upgraded Computer and networked communication technologies, a factor that causes the civilization massive damage.
“The speed causes the Emptiness, the Empty drives to the ropes,” wrote Paul Virilio. His books, “speed and politics” and “Raging standstill”, which, critically, can be read around the world.
War trauma: The Bunker of the 2. World war employees, Paul Virilio for life
“Information is a bomb,” criticized Paul Virilio in an Essay of 1998, and saw beforehand that the Transmission of real-time weaknesses in the data and false information to peace between the Nations.
A child of total war
Paul Virilio was born in 1932 in Paris. As a child he witnessed in the Second world war, the occupation of France by the Nazis and later the bombing of the city of Nantes in 1943 by the allies. Both him and his later life – which was dominated, according to his daughter. He had described himself as “a child of total war”. During the bombing of Nantes, he had made for the first Time, the experience of a “Ästehtik of disappearance,” as he will call it later. His military service, he served as a mapmaker in Freiburg/Breisgau and in Algeria.
Virilio, too, was as architect, city planner and exhibition organizer to be very successful. He taught architecture in Paris, has published more than 30 Essays and books about the Bunker-architecture of the world wars and later to the terrorist attacks of September 11. September in the United States. In 1976, it was shown in his much-acclaimed exhibition, “Bunker archeology” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
In addition to his philosophical employment of Paul Virilio took care of already in the 1980s for the rights of the homeless to have a roof over your head.
On Monday, he was in the closest family circle in Paris.
hm/so (dpa/Libération)