When Eyesight is Fully Industrialised
John Kerrigan, 16 October 1997
Open Sky
by Paul Virilio, translated by Julie Rose.
Verso, 152 pp., £35, August 1997,9781859848807 Show More
by Paul Virilio, translated by Julie Rose.
Verso, 152 pp., £35, August 1997,
“... in an apocalyptic sense that the world as we know it is passing. As the blurb on the back of Julie Rose’s fine translation of Open Sky notes – under the chiliastic legend ‘one day the day will come when the day will not come’ – Virilio was inspired at the age of 18 by the Abbé Pierre and the movement of worker-priests and became a ... ”