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Landscape of Events by Paul Virilio & Bernard Tschumi & Julie Rose
The architect, urban planner and philosopher Paul Virilio uses events such as the media coverage of the Gulf War and urban rioting to explore the acceleration of contemporary life during the 1980s and 1990s, a time which he believed reflected the "cruelty of an epoch".In A Landscape of Events , the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness. Some will see Virilio as a pessimist discouraged by "the acceleration of the reality of time, " while others will find his recording of "atypical events" to be clairvoyant. |
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| Author(s) : Paul Virilio & Bernard Tschumi & Julie Rose | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0262720345 | ISBN-13 : 9780262720342 |
| RRP : £11.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Writing Architecture S.
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 29/01/2001
Publisher : MIT Press Ltd
Page Length : 120mm
Page Size : 202mm