Julie Rose

Bleak in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern technologies of communication and surveillance but passionately political, Open Sky is Paul Virilio’s most far-reaching and radical book for many years. Deepening and extending his earlier work on speed, perception and political control, and applying it now to the global ‘real time’ of the information superhighways, he explores the growing danger of what he calls a ‘generalized accident,’ ...