We are living under the Administration of fear: Fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape.
With the nuclear dissuasion of the Cold War behind us, we are faced with a new form of civil dissuasion: a state of Fear that allows for the suspension of controversial social situations..
With every natural disaster, health scare, and malicious rumor now comes the inevitable "information bomb"--live feeds take over real space, and technology connects life to the immediacy of terror, the ultimate expression of speed.
For Virilio, the economic catastrophe of 2007 was not the death knell of capitalism, as some have claimed, but just further evidence that capitalism has accelerated into turbo-capitalism, and is accelerating still.
In this new and lengthy interview, Paul Virilio shows us how the "propaganda of progress," the illuminism of new technologies, provide unexpected vectors for Fear in the way that they manufacture frenzy and stupor.
Globalization has progressively eaten away at the traditional prerogatives of states (most notably of the welfare state), and states have to convince citizens that they can ensure their physical safety.
The Administration of Fear also means that states are tempted to create policies for the orchestration and management of fear.
Fear has become the world we live in.
Stock-market crises, undifferentiated terrorism, lightning pandemics, "professional" suicides....
Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that seizes us and confines us with a stressful claustrophobia.
There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain timeframe.
We are living under the Administration of fear: Fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape
