Paul Virilio
Biography

Born in 1932, in Paris. Lives in La Rochelle.

Emeritus Professor at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, and chairman and director of the same institution from 1968 to 1998, Paul Virilio became editor of the Espace Critique collection at Editions Galilée in 1973 after the publication of his first philosophical essays.
He was awarded the Grand Prix National de la Critique in 1987.
In 1990, he became programme director at the Collège International de Philosophie, headed by Jacques Derrida, and, since 1992, has sat on the French commission concerned with housing for the poor (HCLD), chaired by Louis Besson.
Paul Virilio is an essayist with a special interest in urbanism and the strategic implications of new technologies. In addition to his numerous books, he has published widely in French and international journals. He has worked with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain on several exhibitions, the first being La Vitesse (1991), at Jouy-en-Josas in 1991.

Major Bibliography

Ground Zero, Verso, London, 2002
A Landscape of Events, MIT Press, New York, 2000
The Strategy of Deception, Verso, London, 2000
The Information Bomb, Verso, London, 1999
Politics of the Very Worst, Semiotext(e), New York, 1998
Open Sky, Verso, London, 1997
The Art of the Motor, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995
Bunker Archeology, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1994
The Vision Machine, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1994
The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Semiotext(e), New York, 1991
The Lost Dimension, Semiotext(e), New York, 1991
Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles, Semiotext(e), New York, 1990
War and Cinema—The Logistics of Perception, Verso, London, 1989
Speed and Politics, Semiotext(e), New York, 1986