...the fusion is now complete, the confusion perfect; nothing now distinguishes the functions of the weapon and the eye...the old ballistic projection has been succeeded by the projection of light, of the electronic eye, of the video missile...
in other words, war consists not so much in scoring territorial, economic, or other material victories as in appropriating the 'immateriality' of perceptual fields.
Paul Virilio, War and Cinema
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