Paul Virilio: The Vision Machine (1988-) [EN, ES, SK, RU]

24 June 2009, dusan

Surveying art history as well as the technologies of war and urban planning, one of France’s leading intellectuals provides an introduction to a new “logistics of the image.”

Originally published in French as Le machine de vision, Editions Galilee, 1988
Translated by Julie Rose
Publisher Indiana University Press, 1994
ISBN 0253209013, 9780253209016
81 pages

Key words and phrases
Gericault, telepresence, phatic, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Descartes, Gustave Lebon, Abel Gance, Daniel Buren, Adolf Loos, speed of light, Robert Flaherty, Edgar Allan Poe, Madame Bovary, Auguste Rodin, camera obscura, Albert Speer, British Documentary Movement, wings of desire

publisher
google books

PDF (English, trans. Julie Rose, 1994)
PDF (La Máquina de Visión, Spanish, 2nd ed., trans. Mariano Antolin Rato, 1998)
PDF (Stroj videnia, Slovak, trans. Mária Ferenčuhová, 2002)
PDF (Машина зрения [Mashina zreniya], Russian, trans. A. В. Шестакова, 2004)