"Technology cannot exist without the potential for accidents. For example, the invention of the locomotive also entailed the invention of the rail disaster. Virilio sees the Accident as a rather negative growth of social positivism and scientific progress. The growth of technology, namely television, separates us directly from the events of real space and real time. We lose wisdom, lose sight of our immediate horizon and resort to the indirect horizon of our dissimulated environment. From this angle, the Accident can be mentally pictured as a sort of 'fractal meteorite' whose impact is prepared in the propitious darkness, a landscape of events concealing future collisions. Even Aristotle claimed that 'there is no science of the accident,' but Virilio disagrees, pointing to the growing credibility of simulators designed to escape the accident -- an industry born from the unholy marriage of post-WW2 science and the military-industrial complex."
(hat tip to MBM)
I'm crazy over the animation, it's like a romantic heroine running for her life from a loveless marriage.
Just for the record, it's "found."
looks a bit b3ta-ish....
T, from whom/where is this quote? So strange, I just read Virilio & Lotringer's new book, The Accident of Art, today... Luv this animation!
Hi, Marisa. The quote is from the Wikipedia article I linked to (subhead "The Integral Accident"), so I guess it's collab./anon. Yeah, that truck is some f*cked up sh*t.
It's cute!
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(hat tip to MBM)
- tom moody 2-07-2006 10:11 pm
I'm crazy over the animation, it's like a romantic heroine running for her life from a loveless marriage.
- L.M. 2-07-2006 10:16 pm
Just for the record, it's "found."
- tom moody 2-07-2006 10:16 pm
looks a bit b3ta-ish....
- mbs (guest) 2-08-2006 4:32 am
T, from whom/where is this quote? So strange, I just read Virilio & Lotringer's new book, The Accident of Art, today... Luv this animation!
- marisa 2-08-2006 8:51 am
Hi, Marisa. The quote is from the Wikipedia article I linked to (subhead "The Integral Accident"), so I guess it's collab./anon. Yeah, that truck is some f*cked up sh*t.
- tom moody 2-08-2006 9:09 am
It's cute!
- Thor Johnson (guest) 2-08-2006 6:47 pm