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About the Book: A Winters Journey
French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his
writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in A Winters
Journey are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural
writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous
technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and
horror. The dialogues in A Winters Journey—structured loosely around the dates
1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980—chart Virilios intimate intellectual biography, from
his childhood lived against the unstable backdrop of a heavily bombed, wartime
Nantes to maturity in a crisis space that is neither entirely militarized nor
yet fully civilian,
About the Book: A Winters Journey
French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his
writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in A Winters
Journey are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural
writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous
technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and
horror. The dialogues in A Winters Journey—structured loosely around the dates
1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980—chart Virilios intimate intellectual biography, from
his childhood lived against the unstable backdrop of a heavily bombed, wartime
Nantes to maturity in a crisis space that is neither entirely militarized nor
yet fully civilian,