Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European
Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French
literature and philosophy at Columbia University.
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).
"There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This "accident" is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive. - Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art"
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