Examining digital technological innovation, Paul Virilio (1995) suggests that we may be experiencing a new and very different annihilation: the destruction of human interaction. He argues that the advent of the cyber world is distracting ou…Shanken, E. (2007). Telematic embrace: Visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Shannon, C. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication. In C. Shannon & W. Weave…
Paul Virilio
philosopher · 3 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Virilio appears primarily as a theorist of technology's negative externalities, particularly how digital systems and cybernetic abstraction create forms of alienation and perceptual distortion that undermine embodied human experience. His invocation in the course readings frames a critical counterpoint to enthusiastic accounts of technological integration, suggesting that the acceleration and disembodiment inherent in cyber-mediated life produces a kind of violence against presence and direct interaction. This skepticism about seamless technological consciousness proves essential for questioning what might be lost when human agency becomes increasingly channeled through machinic systems.
Mentioned in 2 readings
Appears alongside
People mentioned in the same passages — sorted by co-occurrence weight.
Roy Ascott 2Beatrice Zics 1Carlos Vidales 1Claude Shannon 1Crispin Wania 1Graeme Sullivan 1Heinz von Foerster 1Jenifer Tidwell 1Katherine McCain 1Leonard Shlain 1Margaret Atwood 1Nick Montfort 1Noah Wardrip-Fruin 1Norbert Wiener 1Stephen Wright 1Victoria Vesna 1Warren Weaver 1Jean-Louis Comolli 1Philippe Carles 1