Critical reflections.

From: Artforum International | Date: November 1, 1995| Author: Virilio, Paul | Copyright information

An author-critic manages to describe the new realities that confronts human population through a novel understanding called urbanism. Technological innovations have provided man with machines of transport and transmission that have vastly contributed to the growth of the electronic consumer culture worldwide. However, as more innovations are made, man finds himself being detached from context or from the realities in his environment.

About a century ago, Auguste Rodin presaged our c...

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