Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paul Virilio, Michio Kaku, Mutual Assured Destruction
13 Aug 2016
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The accident reveals the substance because what crops up is a sort of analysis, a techno- analysis of what is beneath any knowledge. It follows that fighting against the damage done by progress above all means uncovering the hidden truth of our successes in this accidental revelation of the incriminated substances. paul virilio, the original accident. Useful to meditate on the catastrophe that modern technology poses. And if we don"t think about them, why don"t we, when the procession of catastrophes is effectively endless, as there will always be another, and another, and another. Accidents and disasters are inevitable there will always be a catastrophe waiting to happen. Progress cannot proceed without admitting the possibility of disaster. Not to say that every accident is catastrophic. There are examples where progress has been made from the happy accident. Even this benign aspect of the accident demonstrates that development do not proceed in a smooth and untroubled way.
