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The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio | Goodreads

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Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetic…

Author 2 books13 followers March 20, 2014 It's been several years since I read this book and it made such a strong impact on me that I can remember where I was and what the temperature was like when I read it (and the book is about these sorts of placements in time). I remember being on the train reading it when someone told me that Michael Jackson had died. The best way I can reflect on the way Virilio dissects time is to take the example of dropping a coffee cup (this is a broad paraphrase): when we drop a cup, we may take this as an accident or exception, but what we should really find…

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