Desert screen : war at the speed of light / Paul Virilio ; translated by Michael Degener.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Athlone contemporary European thinkersPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xvi, 148 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0826458211
- 9780826458216
- 082645822X
- 9780826458223
- Ecran du désert. English
- 956.70442 21
- DS79.739 .V5713 2002
Contents:
Summary: This text chronicles the Gulf War in terms of the reflections of an attentive telespectator. Virilio discerns a global spatial-temporal collapse following the Cold War, and identifies the Gulf War as an historical turning point.
Preface / James Der Derian -- I. Foreword -- II. August 1990: Desert Shield -- III. January 1991: Desert Storm -- IV. June 1991: Desert Screen -- V. Virilio Looks Back and Sees the Future: Interview by James Der Derian (2000).
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 956.70442 VIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A409032B |
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| 956.70442 KEE Secret state, silent press : new militarism, the Gulf and the modern image of warfare / | 956.70442 ODD The discourse of propaganda : case studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror / | 956.70442 TAY War and the media : propaganda and persuasion in the Gulf War / | 956.70442 VIR Desert screen : war at the speed of light / | 956.70442 YET The Persian Gulf crisis / | 956.704428 MAC Second front : censorship and propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War / | 956.70443 ALI Bush in Babylon : the recolonisation of Iraq / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / James Der Derian -- I. Foreword -- II. August 1990: Desert Shield -- III. January 1991: Desert Storm -- IV. June 1991: Desert Screen -- V. Virilio Looks Back and Sees the Future: Interview by James Der Derian (2000).
This text chronicles the Gulf War in terms of the reflections of an attentive telespectator. Virilio discerns a global spatial-temporal collapse following the Cold War, and identifies the Gulf War as an historical turning point.
Translated from the French, Ecran du désert.
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