Desert screen : war at the speed of light /
Paul Virilio ; translated by Michael Degener.
- xvi, 148 pages ; 22 cm.
- Athlone contemporary European thinkers .
- Athlone contemporary European thinkers. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Foreword -- August 1990: Desert Shield -- January 1991: Desert Storm -- June 1991: Desert Screen -- Virilio Looks Back and Sees the Future: Interview by James Der Derian (2000). James Der Derian -- I. II. III. IV. V.
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.