"Paris is a long sequence-lenght shot, a tracking shot of over a thousand years that leads from Lutetia, centred in the Ile de la Cité, to the Ile de France, and tomorrow, or the day after, to this whopping great planetary suburb where the metropolitics of globalization will take over from the geopolitics of nations, just as the latter once took over from the city-state of the antique origins of politics."
"This synchronization of emotions of the information age that has come to finish off the job of standardization of behaviours of the industrial age."
Paul Virilio, City of Panic.
