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 makes the world smaller while the microscope makes it larger.

The telescope makes the world smaller... it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

is a device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details.

The telescope is a device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily, it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

is a device enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details.

was criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. It allows us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

is a visual prosthetic which abolishes our apprehension of distances and dimensions.

as Virilio indicates towards the beginning of The Vision Machine: The very model of visual prostheses, the telescope projects an image of a world outside our reach and with that a different way of moving through the world; the logistics of perception inaugurates an unknown transfer of the gaze, it creates the telescoping of the near and the far, a phenomenon of acceleration which abolishes our apprehension of distances and dimensions. More than a return to antiquity, the Renaissance appears today as the emergence of a period in which all intervals were traversed, a morphological effraction which immediately affects the reality effect. (Virilio 1994b: 4)

is an invention that heralded and age of telepresence (only expanded in cinema and television) and a transformation of spatial and temporal perception effected by different technologies.

With the invention of the telescope the origin of telepresence can be located historically and it should be clear from this that, for Virilio, the transformation of spatial and temporal perception effected by different technologies is by no means purely a product of late nineteenth and twentieth-century innovations. p.57

is just a spaceship that brings space to us instead of us to it.

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