From Visual Arts to the 'War of Images,' a breakthrough in Virilio Studies.
Sylvère Lotringer, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, Founder Semiotext(e)
For nearly forty years, Paul Virilio has confronted apocalypse. From the Blitzkrieg of his childhood to catastrophes of 21st century technology, he has contemplated and produced images of apocalypse, and the apocalypse of images. Armitage and Bishop have packed their book with analyses and interpretations of Virilio's radical and revelatory poetics of a simultaneously intensifying and unravelling visuality, creating their own oblique architecture to disturb and renew the oeuvre of one of the least predictable thinkers of the fin-de-millennium.
Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London
A critical appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more
Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology working today. Reconceptualising everything from technology and photography to cultural studies and media studies through his own original theories and arguments, Virilio's work compels readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives.
This anthology of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, moves between the visual and the urban, the military and the ethical, the architectural and the aesthetic, the historical and the postmodern. It is indispensable reading for all students and researchers of contemporary visual culture.
John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics also at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts and Co-Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. John's research interests include luxury and visual culture, new media art, continental philosophy, and the critical theory of technology. He is the founder and co-editor of the Duke University Press journal Cultural Politics.

Ryan Bishop is Professor of Global Arts and Politics and Co-director of the research group Archaeologies of Media and Technology at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He co-edits the journal Cultural Politics (Duke UP), and is a series editor for Technicities (Edinburgh University Press) and Cultural Politics (Duke UP).

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture, John Armitage and Ryan Bishop; 2. The Illusions of Zero Time, Paul Virilio; 3. Towards a New Ecology of Time, Joy Garnett; 4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception, John Beck; 5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge', Caren Kaplan; 6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War, John Phillips; 7. History in the 'Mis-en-Abyme of the Body': Ranbir Kaleka and the 'Art of Auschwitz' after Virilio, Tania Roy; 8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul's 'Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost', Ryan Bishop; 9. The Event, Jordan Crandall; 10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art, John Armitage; 11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation, Benjamin H. Bratton; 12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide, Gair Dunlop; 13. The Production of the Present, Ian James; Notes on Contributors; Index.