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Virilio Overexposed City

1. The document discusses Paul Virilio's analysis of cities in the 1960s-1970s. During this time, walls were erected and cities lost their purpose due to globalization and the energy crisis. 2. It explains that today's crisis is one of references and narratives as technology has replaced ends with means and grand theories with practical opportunities. 3. Hollywood is deemed more interesting than Las Vegas because it creates a synthetic space-time through cinema, while architecture now measures itself through technology instead of geology.

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Virilio Overexposed City

1. The document discusses Paul Virilio's analysis of cities in the 1960s-1970s. During this time, walls were erected and cities lost their purpose due to globalization and the energy crisis. 2. It explains that today's crisis is one of references and narratives as technology has replaced ends with means and grand theories with practical opportunities. 3. Hollywood is deemed more interesting than Las Vegas because it creates a synthetic space-time through cinema, while architecture now measures itself through technology instead of geology.

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OverexposedCity,PaulVirilio

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Whatarethecharacteristicsofthe60'sand70'sfortheauthor?
Howdoestheauthorexplainthecrisisofthepresent?
WhyisHollywoodmoreinterestingthanLasVegas?
Whatistheconditionoftechnologyandsciencetoday?

OverexposedCity,PaulVirilio
In1960'stherewerewallserected,MayorofPhiladelphiatheblackand
white,theBerlinwall,BelfastandLondonderry,Beirut,
Citieslikecompaniessufferedfrommultinatinaleconomy,Citiesbecame
redundant
In1970'stheenergycrisisandterrorism,andsafetymeasuresagainst
terrorism.Theairportbecamelikeafort,withelectronicdevicesand
cameras.
Therecameaparadoxicalsituationregardingthefreedomoftravelling.
Theboundarychangeditscharacterintimeandsodidtheentrance.
"Togointothecity",isreplacedby"togotothecity".
Lightnessandtransperancybecamethecharacterofthebuildings.
Dayandnightlifechanged,transportationandtheothercommunication
systemsgavewaytoadifferentlifestyle,citieslosttheirinhabitants.
materialthingsmadebyphysicalelementschangedtoimmaterialsigns,
wavesetc.
Ifacrisisexisttodayitisthecrisisofreferences(ethical,esthetic)
Thecrisisofmodernity'sgrandnarrativesofwhatLyotardspeaks,betraysthe
presenceofnewtechnology,withtheemphasisbeingplaced,fromnowon,
onthemeansandnottheends.
Thegrandnarrativesoftheoreticalcausalityarereplacedbythelittle
narrativesofpracticalopportunityandfinallyofthemicronarrativesof
economy.
Thecrisisofdimension:Urbantopology,agriculturalmechanization.Since
thebeginningofthe20'thcentury,thedepthofthefieldofclassical
perspectivehasbeenrenewedbythedepthoftimeofadvancedtechnology.
Thedevelopmentofcinematographyandaeronauticsfollowedtheopennings
ofthegrandboulevards.
Fromtheaestheticsoftheappearanceofthestableimages,presentbecause
oftheirstaticnature,totheaestheticsofthedissapearanceofunstable
images,presentbecauseoftheirmotion,atransmutationofrepresentation
hastakenplace.
InthisperspectiveHollywoodismoreinterestingthanLasVegas.Asynthetic
spacetimeiscreated.
Architectonicsnowdoesnotmeasureitselfagainstthescaleofgeology,
butwithstateofarttechnologies.

Technologywascloselyassociatedwiththevisibletransformationsof
substanceandsciencehasgraduallyturnedusawayfromthevisible.

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