"Electronic images are replacing the electrification of the cities and countryside that was created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Automatic cameras and monitors are replacing the streetlights and the lights of the cities. So that when you move into a modern city realizes that everything is focused on a video monitor which is not exactly the prefecture of police or traffic control but also the supermarkets, closed circuit television in the buildings, and so forth. So we interact with images on their representational aspects of artistic or illustrative is a different type of lighting, electronic visibility and can no longer see space, a space to live and interact, the area of \u200b\u200bthe city or even the space of a more global territory, without this new visibility. "
Paul Virilio
Review in an interview to French television and included in VVAA, 5 Codes. Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times, Basel / Berlin, Birkhäuser , 2006, pp 126 and 127.
journal appears in the book: "The city captive, control and surveillance in urban space . 62 pp Jose Miguel G. Cortez
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