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Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio is a writer and an Architecture Professor and Workshop Director at the Special School of Architecture of Paris. He has been a member of the Direction Committee of the Esprit magazine (1969-1977) and a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Peace Search and Strategic Studies in the House of Human Sciences (in 1980).

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“The astonished people”

by Paul Virilio

3 June 2005

The French referendum about the Constitution looks like a political opening-up. More and more one gets the impression of a denial of democracy and even of a hidden plebiscite, plotted by Jacques Chirac, a president that, since his re-election in 2002 and in spite of his successes in foreign (...)