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rienthril's review against another edition
3.0
Virilio and a buddy swap dark jargon in an interview edited for unclarity. Crushing but prescient French dread, put to words in 2012, but presaging the COVID pandemic of 2020 to ??? with alarming precision. Well, not precision exactly because I (nor you, let’s be honest) understand WTF half of what they’re saying means. BUT constricted time, the brutality of instantaneity, the sense of loss of human rhythm, all facilitated by technological progress for its own sake, this all resonated with me big time, like “dude, that’s what I’ve been saying!” And especially so what with quarantines and WFH and Zoom and Teams, etc, etc. Don’t say Virilio didn’t tell you so. Even if he told you in postmodern code.
beentsy's review against another edition
5.0
Such a thought provoking book. I do wish I was just a little bit brighter though. I'm not sure I was intellectually up to the task of fully appreciating this.
lil_juulnieb's review against another edition
There are some interesting concepts introduced, but it is almost all conjecture and that which is supported with any form of argument is supported weakly.
cmcrockford's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting but again I have to question the constant density up of language in philosophy and phenomenology. We're humans, not penguins - no need to puff up our words to show how smart we are - it's just an irritating way of filtering out the people who actually should read this sort of work.
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