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Paul Virilio's War and Cinema

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Power of the False

The threat of atomic destruction becomes more terrifying in terms of battle or as a deterrence. There's something more terrifying about the anticipation of destruction, the anxiety of complete annihilation. In fact, to really more directly he kind of talks about how this was even acknowledged by church Hill like the spiritual nature of terror. That about that being more powerful than even the weaponry itself. If you could create that sense of terror in the enemy. I think it does I think the language surrounding false only reason why this language of powers of the false persists is because of a long history of thought that spans way beyond Plato and whatnot but definitely encompasses centuries of Christianity and Christian thinking.

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