The Original AccidentISBN: 978-0-7456-3613-9
Hardcover
128 pages
January 2006, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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A biting meditation on Progress technoscientific progress, at
any cost and without any limits this book defines the ways in which
postindustrial science has merged with out-and-out hyperterrorism
to threaten the foundations of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian
civilization, and the future of the planet with them, through
innovation of mass catastrophes that are part and parcel of its
panoply of inventions.
Urging us to face up to the consequences of our brave-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.