In a discussion between the Paris-based culture theorist Paul Virilio and Jérôme Sans titled ‘The game of love and chance’, Virilio questions what kind of form virtuality has currently taken on nowadays:
The imminent home installation of domestic simulators and virtual space rooms for game-playing, poses many questions, and in particular this one: ”What is a game once the virtual invades
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Last week, I wrote about Twitter from the perspective of psychologist Barry Schwartz and what he calls the Paradox of Choice. “With so many options to choose from, people find it difficult to choose at all.” From this perspective I argued against Twitter’s RSS Feed-like interface where more outbound links equals better. From this approach, I looked at…
This is a summary of Virilio’s book, War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. I read this for a class on German Media Theory – alongside Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power, Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies and Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.