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PAUL VIRILIO
Translated by Julie Rose
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A Pi tiless Art 25
Silence on Trial 67
Notes 97
Bibliography 105
Index 109
Translator) s preface
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Art and Fear
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Julie Rose
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Art and Fear:
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Notes
3 . Ibid.
4. Theodor Ado rno, 'Cultural Criticism and So
ciety' , in Prisms, trans . Samuel and Sherry
Weber ( Cambridge MA: The M I T Press,
1 96 7 ) , p. 34.
5. Virilio, The A esthetics of Disappearance.
6 . Paul Virilio, The Art of the Motor, trans . Julie
Rose (Minneapolis: U niversity of Minnesota
Press, 1 995) ; Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb,
trans . Chris Turner ( London/New York: Verso,
2000 ) .
7 . On Virilio' s hypermodernism see John Armi
tage ( ed . ) Paul Virilio : From Modernism to
Hypermodernism and Beyond ( London : Sage, 2000) .
8 . The term ' b anality of evil' was first coined by
H annah Arendt iiI Chapter 15 of her Eichmann in
Jerusalem ( London: Penguin, 1 963 ) .
9 . Walter Benj amin, 'The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction', in Illuminations,
trans . Harry Zohn (N ew York: Schocken Books,
1 969) , p. 242 .
A Pitiless Art
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Notes
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Silence on Trial
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Bib liography
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Bibliography
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Bibliography
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Index
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Index
Nagasaki 30 O rlan 2
Narfs 46 O rwell, George 75, 9 1
Nazism
and Concen tration Pabst, G . W . 87
Camps 3, 2 1 , 24, Plato 88
2 7, 28, 29, 43 , 53, 5 7 , Picasso , Pablo 34, 3 7 , 46,
87 64, 8 1
and 'degenerate art' 95 and advertising 81
and eugenics 1 0 , 50, 5 2 , and the Douanier R ousseau
53-4, 5 5 46
a n d Josef Mengele 50 Guemica 34, 46
and the l E G 5 3-5 Pieta of Avignon, The 34
and newsreels 74 Portraits of the Fayou m , see
and Nuremberg 74 Egypt
Netchalev 32
and nineteenth century Ramonet, I gnacio 36
Russian intelligentsia Raph ael 82
5; 32 Rotello, Mimmo 93
Newsreels 74 see also Fu turism
Niemoller, Father 87 Rothko, Mark 30, 3 7 , 3 8 see
Nietzsche, Friedrich 4, 23, Suicide
31, 51 Rwanda and The Thousand
and 'the d eath of God' Hills Radio 23, 5 7
3 8-9
and eugenics 49 Saatchi, Ch arles 36, 4 1 , 9 1
Nigh t of the Millenni um 72, scandal involving
82 Christie's 92
Nitsch, Hermann 42 ' S ensation ' exhibition 36
see (llso Viennese Actionism see also Advertising
Nolde , Emil 34 Saint Exupery, Antoine
Nuremberg 74 de 47
Nuremburg Code, The 60 Sartre, Jean Paul 4, 70
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Wagner 1 5 , 80 Zedong, M ao 33
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