Paul Virilio
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Oct 6, 2026
Nir EyalGUEST
So when we say...
Nir EyalGUEST
You know, uh, Paul Virilio had a wonderful quote.
Nir EyalGUEST
He said that when you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck.
Nir EyalGUEST
And so are, are...
Peter HalleyGUEST
Right.
Peter HalleyGUEST
It was also the era in which Michel Foucault's work, Baudrillard's work, Roland Barthes' work, Paul Virilio's work, and others was first being translated and it, all that was available at St. Mark's bookstore on East 9th Street, and that had a tremendous effect on me.
Dan GratzHOST
So you encountered these post-structuralist French, newly translated French thinkers and you were influenced.
Dan GratzHOST
Were you, you were influenced by their writings? Were you making the paintings-
James PoulosGUEST
So just kind of hit the beginner's mind button and started reading my way through the, the, the tech and the, the media theory literature, beginning with McLuhan and, and working my way up through, you know.
James PoulosGUEST
I happen to like the French people, probably 'cause of Tocqueville, so Virilio, Girard, Baudrillard, um, they, they had a lot of good ones.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
So the sentiment de semblance, the feeling of likeness creates this envy, and we reach out seeing ourselves on a plane of equality for new horizons, new frontiers, and doing... and technology seems the way to do that, the way to advance beyond other people.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
And so we're always caught in this race and, and in this cycle.
James PoulosGUEST
So just kind of hit the beginner's mind button and started reading my way through the, the, the tech and the, the media theory literature, beginning with McLuhan and, and working my way up through, you know.
James PoulosGUEST
I happen to like the French people, probably 'cause of Tocqueville, so Virilio, Girard, Baudrillard, um, they, they had a lot of good ones.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
So the sentiment de semblance, the feeling of likeness creates this envy, and we reach out seeing ourselves on a plane of equality for new horizons, new frontiers, and doing... and technology seems the way to do that, the way to advance beyond other people.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
And so we're always caught in this race and, and in this cycle.
James PoulosGUEST
I happen to like the French people probably because of Tocqueville.
James PoulosGUEST
So Virilio, Girard, Baudrillard, they had a lot of good ones.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
So the sentimentus ambulans, the feeling of likeness, creates this envy.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
And we reach out, seeing ourselves on a plane of equality for new horizons, new frontiers.
James PoulosGUEST
So just kind of hit the beginner's mind button and started reading my way through the, the, the tech and the, the media theory literature, beginning with McLuhan and, and working my way up through, you know.
James PoulosGUEST
I happen to like the French people, probably 'cause of Tocqueville, so Virilio, Girard, Baudrillard, um, they, they had a lot of good ones.
Ryan HenkelHOST
So the sentiment de semblance, the feeling of likeness creates this envy, and we reach out seeing ourselves on a plane of equality for new horizons, new frontiers, and doing...
Ryan HenkelHOST
And technology seems the way to do that, the way to advance beyond other people.
James PoulosGUEST
So just kind of hit the beginner's mind button and started reading my way through the tech and the media theory literature, beginning with McLuhan and working my way up through, you know, I happen to like the French people probably because of Tocqueville.
James PoulosGUEST
So Virilio, Girard, Baudrillard, they had a lot of good ones.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
So the sentimentus ambulans, the feeling of likeness, creates this envy.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
And we reach out, seeing ourselves on a plane of equality for new horizons, new frontiers.
James PoulosGUEST
So just kind of hit the beginner's mind button and started reading my way through the tech and the media theory literature, beginning with McLuhan and working my way up through, you know, I happen to like the French people probably because of Tocqueville.
James PoulosGUEST
So Virilio, Girard, Baudrillard, they had a lot of good ones.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
So the sentimentus ambulans, the feeling of likeness, creates this envy.
Ryan ShinkelHOST
And we reach out, seeing ourselves on a plane of equality for new horizons, new frontiers.
Stephen WittGUEST
I think I'd take the second one.
Caleb BissingerHOST
What about you, Caleb? You know, I've been thinking a lot about, I think his name is Paul Virilio, the French theorist who famously said that, you know, the invention of the plane is also the invention of the plane crash.
Rufus GriscomHOST
Right.
Rufus GriscomHOST
It's a great line.