Open SkyWriter and political activist Paul Virilio makes a passionate critique of information technology and the global media. OPEN SKY is a call for revolt against the insidious manipulation of perception by the electronic media and the infantilism of cyberhype. Virilio pleads for a new ethics of perception and a new ecology, to protect not only the natural world, but also the urban community. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Law of Proximity | 49 |
Grey Ecology | 58 |
Continental Drift | 69 |
Eye Lust | 89 |
From Sexual Perversion to Sexual Diversion | 103 |
Escape Velocity | 119 |
Notes | 146 |
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