New media, the information bomb, and the overexposed city:: Paul Virilio contra Bernard Stiegler on technology, space, and time
New media, the information bomb, and the overexposed city:: Paul Virilio contra Bernard Stiegler on technology, space, and time
New media, defined by the internet and other postindustrial forms of telecommunication, is one of the best-known and most wide-ranging contemporary cultural and critical concepts. This article provides an accessible introduction to the French critic of the art of technology Paul Virilio’s writings on the new media of what Virilio calls ‘the information bomb’ and ‘the overexposed city’. Steering the reader through this crucial thinker’s often challenging work, the article considers Virilio’s ongoing impact on present-day critical new media theory by contrasting it with that of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. With extensive discussion of Virilio’s and Stiegler’s very different technological and spatial viewpoints and careful appreciation for questions concerning contemporary temporality, the article guides the reader through part of the electronic labyrinth that is new media.
New media; information bomb; overexposed city; Paul Virilio; Bernard Stiegler; technology; space; time
Armitage, John
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17 November 2022
Armitage, John
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Armitage, John
(2022)
New media, the information bomb, and the overexposed city:: Paul Virilio contra Bernard Stiegler on technology, space, and time.
Media Theory, 6 (1).
Abstract
New media, defined by the internet and other postindustrial forms of telecommunication, is one of the best-known and most wide-ranging contemporary cultural and critical concepts. This article provides an accessible introduction to the French critic of the art of technology Paul Virilio’s writings on the new media of what Virilio calls ‘the information bomb’ and ‘the overexposed city’. Steering the reader through this crucial thinker’s often challenging work, the article considers Virilio’s ongoing impact on present-day critical new media theory by contrasting it with that of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. With extensive discussion of Virilio’s and Stiegler’s very different technological and spatial viewpoints and careful appreciation for questions concerning contemporary temporality, the article guides the reader through part of the electronic labyrinth that is new media.
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John Armitage is Visiting Professor of Media Arts at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is the editor and author of numerous books on the work of Paul Virilio, including The Virilio Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and Virilio for Architects (Routledge, 2015).
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New media; information bomb; overexposed city; Paul Virilio; Bernard Stiegler; technology; space; time
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