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VIRILIO, Paul.
Bunker Archéologie.
Publisher: Paris: Centre de Création Industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1975
Stock code: 52135
Price: £400 Currency Conversion
First edition. Catalogue for the Exhibition of Virilio's photographic studies of the bunkers around the Western and Northern coasts of France. Accompanied by a theoretical explanatory text this work represents an early statement of his "war model" of the growth of cities and of the development of human society itself. "… to say that the positive phenomenon of technology came in large part from the arsenal and war is…hard for people to accept." (quoted in Gane 'Paul Virilio's Bunker Theorizing' in Theory, Culture & Society. , Vol. XVI, No. 5-6, p.87) Irrespective of this "mythical" dimension it is nonetheless a superb visual record.
Small square quarto. Original stiff card wraps with wide French-fold turn-ins. Profusely illustrated from Virilio's photographs Wraps very slightly yellowed at the edges, and just a touch chafed, particularly on the spine edges, but overall a very good copy.
