If last century's revolution in transportation saw the emergence and global popularization of the dynamic motor vehicle (train, motor-bike, car, plane), the current revolution in transmission leads in turn to the innovation of the ultimate vehicle: the static audiovisual vehicle, marking the advent of a behavioural inertia in the sender/receiver that moves us along from the celebrated retinal persistence wich permits the optical illusion of the cinematic projection to the bodily persistence of this "terminal man"; a prerequisite for the sudden mobilization of the illusion of the world, of a whole world, telepresent at each moment, the witness's own body becoming the last urban frontier. Social organization and a kind of conditioning once limited to the space of the city and to the space of the family home finally closing in on the animal body. (11) - Paul Virilio
I know you're going to like this girl. She's our top girl. Luscious breasts, skin like silk. A nice, curvy waist, hot and wet right where you like it, a regular sex machine. To use a car metaphor, she's a four-wheel drive in bed, turbo-charged desire, step on the accelerator, the surging gearstick in her hands, you round the corner, she shifts gears ecstatically, you race ou in the fast lane and bang! you're there. - Haruki Murakami
Shape I may take, converse I am, but neither god nor buddha a I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man. - Ueda Akinari
Where the display space is reduced, the pace has to pick up so that what is lacking in extension can be put back in duration! The perspective of the (real) life-size space of a world still full, still whole, is now of necessity saddled with a relativistic perspective of time: that real time of an instantaneity that makes up for the definitive loss of geographical distances. (63) - Paul Virilio
