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Paul Virilio aims at the retrieval of those hidden layers of bodily experience and perception in the world.

Paul Virilio is above all interested in space and movement, and in the way in which geopolitics and geostrategy are shaped by spatial organization and vectors of movement through space.

Paul Virilio is interested not in mathematical abstraction, but rather in shapes, figures and forms.

Paul Virilio is concerned with how temporal and spatial organization shapes our individual and collective apprehension of time and space.

Paul Virilio is pessimistic about technology because his thought retains a profound attachment to, and affirmation of, the notion of the situated body and of the material spatiality of lived, embodied experience.

Paul Virilio is concerned with offering an account of speed's negative impact on the shaping of perception and of social or political space.

Paul Virilio is a reader of reality. A Master of reading the real; not an analyst in this area but rather a creator.

Paul Virilio is an archaeologist of the future. In the present he tracks down the future.

Paul Virilio tries to draw our attention to ways in which modern technologies shape the manner in which we experience space and time by orientating our bodies in new and different ways.

Paul Virilio is an art critic of technology.

Paul Virilio is a thinker of the way in which the increasing speeds of transmission have shaped individual perception, but also social, political and cultural life.

Paul Virilio is seeking to describe nothing other than the way cinema has brought about a generalized transformation of collective ways of seeing and representing based on perception at a distance.

Paul Virilio is concerned with how the accelerated speeds of transmission and communication afforded by modern technologies lead to a loss of immediate presence and a diminution of lived embodied experience.

Paul Virilio is interested in the way perception is structured through the orientation of the body within its physical and technological environment.

Paul Virilio's key preoccupation is with the relation of technology to bodily situatedness.

Paul Virilio is a writer who works must be read within a phenomenology framework to properly understand it less as an abusive relation to scientific theory, and far more a result of the limited philosophical horizons of those who would attack him for such alleged abuses.

Walter Benjamin is interested in analyzing how sense perception has been changed by technology.

Walter Benjamin is interested in how technology has subjected the human sensorium to a complex kind of training.

Walter Benjamin is a thinker informed by the presupposition that technology generates new forms' and that technological form precipitates social form.