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Virilio’s Screen: The Work of Metaphor in the Age of Technological Convergence

Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California, afriedberg{at}cinema.usc.edu

This brief essay traces the evolving role of the screen in the writing of high-speed theorist Paul Virilio. In Virilio’s writing, the screen serves as the locus of lost dimensions of space and technological transformations of time; it modifies our relation to space, is a surface-mount for its ‘accelerated virtualization’. If Virilio does not theorize the technological differences between film, television and the computer, I argue, it is because, for him, the screen remains in a metaphoric register, a virtual surface which overrides any specificities of its media formation.

Key Words: architectonics • convergence • screen • Virilio

Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2, 183-193 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1470412904045027


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