A review by rienthril
The Administration of Fear by Paul Virilio

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.