Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles bookcover

Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles

Paul Virilio 

(Author)

Mark Polizzotti 

(Translator)
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What is popular defense? From whom do we have to defend ourselves?

What is popular defense? From whom do we have to defend ourselves? Originally civilian populations were capable of defending themselves both in times of peace and war. A military racket was subsequently imposed upon them in the name of protection and popular defense lost its capacity to resist external attack. In case of total war, between the native populations which form the constitutional basis of all great modern states and the military now in charge of defending them there was no more common culture. Industrial wars subsequently managed to replace the thousand-year-old pact of semi-colonization with total colonization. First experimented with in South America, this kind of endo-colonization (the military cracking down on its own population) was gradually extended to all the post-industrial countries through the exponential development of the techno-military complex.

Product Details

PublisherSemiotext(e)
Publish DateJanuary 01, 1990
Pages128
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780936756059
Dimensions7.1 X 4.5 X 0.3 inches | 0.2 pounds

About the Author

Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e).
Mark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books, including works by Patrick Modiano, Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Roussel, Marguerite Duras, and Paul Virilio. Publisher and Editor-in-Chief at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he is also the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton and other books.

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