Paul Virilio (1932-2018) was a French cultural theorist, urbanist and architect whose work examines relationships between speed, technology, warfare and perception. His concept of dromology (the study of speed) argues that velocity has become fundamental to contemporary power.
Virilio’s War and Cinema demonstrates how cinema emerged from military technologies of observation and control. His analyses of logistics of perception, derealization and technological accident illuminate how modern warfare operates through managing vision rather than controlling territory.
Related concepts: logistics-of-perception, derealization, camera-obscura-military