logistics of perception

is a reconfiguration of perception around a military logic that organizes everything in terms of securing control and annihilation.

Virilio argues that vision machines and the phatic images they produce ) are one element in the increasing domination of what he calls the 'logistics of perception' (1994, pp. 4, 12... see also Virilio, 1989). The logistics of perception entail the recofiguration of sight around a military logic that organizes everything in terms of securing control and annihilation. Whether the telegraph or satellite, it involves a logistics that abstracts and 'delocalizes,' accelerating the speed of calculation and transmission of information.' (McAllister / viriolio: mimesis, mourning and modern technology 573).

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logistics of perception