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Reading War Fictions

When studying fictions on war, it seems reasonable to begin with the question of why war? What is it about war that makes it so significant and relevant that we need to investigate its cultural representations? My point is that war is one place of many where images, memory, truth, fiction, history and contemporaneity collide. [...]

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Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

 
The masses are not a population, a society, but the multitude of passers-by. The revolutionary contingent attains its deal form not in the place of production, but in the street, where for a moment it stops being a cog in the technical machine and itself becomes a motor (machine of attack), in other words [...]

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