Lost Dimension

Paul Virilio, Jean-Louis Violeau, Daniel Moshenberg

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French

Semiotext (E)
02 November 2012

Theory of architecture; Urban communities

Series: Lost Dimension

A vision of the city as a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.""Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety, that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplate the imminent encounter with mounds of unwanted mail or with a house that's been broken into and emptied of its contents. It begins with the urge to flee and escape for a second from an oppressive technological environment, to regain one's senses and one's sense of self."" -from Lost Dimension

Originally written in French in 1983, Lost Dimension remains a cornerstone book in the work of Paul Virilio- the one most closely tied to his background as an urban planner and architect, and the one that most clearly anticipates the technologically wired urban space we live in today- a city of permanent transit and internalized borders, where time has overtaken space, and where telecommunications has replaced both our living and our working environments. We are living in the realm of the lost dimension, where the three-dimensional public square of our urban past has collapsed into the two-dimensional interface of the various screens that function as gateways to home, office, and public spaces, be they the flat-screen televisions on our walls, the computer screens on our desktops, or the smartphones in our pockets.

In this multidisciplinary tapestry of contemporary physics, architecture, aesthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio describes the effects of today's hyperreality on our understanding of space. Having long since passed the opposition of city and country, and city and suburb, the speed-ridden city and space of today are an opposition between the nomadic and the sedentary- a web of interactive, informational networks that turn our world into a prison-house of illusory transcendence.

By: Paul Virilio
Introduction by: Jean-Louis Violeau
Translated by: Daniel Moshenberg
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: new edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9781584351177
ISBN 10: 1584351179
Series: Lost Dimension
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 02 November 2012
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including Speed and Politics, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, and The Accident of Art, all published by Semiotext(e). Jean-Louis Violeau is a sociologist and researcher at the ""Architecture-Culture-Societe"" laboratory of the Ecole d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais in Paris. His most recent book is Les Architectes et Mai 68.

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