Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles

The book by philosopher Paul Virilio aims to answer the questions: What is popular defense? From whom do we have to defend ourselves? The author observes and analyses the shift from wars with “ramparts and fortifications” to contemporary total war and argues that industrial wars subsequently managed to replace the thousand‑year‑old pact of semi‑colonization with total colonization. First experimented with in South America, this kind of “endo‑colonization” (the military cracking down on its own population) was gradually extended to all the post‑industrial countries through the exponential development of the techno‑military complex.

Details

Type

Book

Place of publication

New York City

Publisher

Semiotext(e)

Year

1990

Number of pages

128 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9780936756055

Open stacks or available on request

Open stacks

Illustrations

No

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

109 Vir

Volumes

1

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