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Lost Dimension (Paperback, new edition)
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Lost Dimension (Paperback, new edition)
Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
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A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational
networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory
transcendence. "Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps
inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of
those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the
imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house
that's been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with
the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive
technological environment, to regain one's senses and one's sense
of self." -from Lost Dimension Originally written in French in
1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul
Virilio: the one most closely tied to his background as an urban
planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates
the technologically wired urban space we live in today: a city of
permanent transit and internalized borders, where time has
overtaken space, and where telecommunications has replaced both our
living and our working environments. We are living in the realm of
the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of
our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of
the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and
public spaces, be they the flat-screen televisions on our walls,
the computer screens on our desktops, or the smartphones in our
pockets. In this multidisciplinary tapestry of contemporary
physics, architecture, aesthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio
describes the effects of today's hyperreality on our understanding
of space. Having long since passed the opposition of city and
country, and city and suburb, the speed-ridden city and space of
today are an opposition between the nomadic and the sedentary: a
web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into
a prison-house of illusory transcendence.
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