New from Princeton Architectural Press, due April 2006.
Bunker Archaeology, Paul Virilio
In Bunker Archeology, urban philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio
turns his attention—and camera—to the ominous yet strangely compelling
German bunkers from WW II that lie abandoned on the coast of France. These
ghostly reminders of destruction and oppression prompt Virilio to consider
the nature of war and existence, in relation to both the Second World War
and contemporary times.
This is the first English-language translation of the French edition
published in 1975 to accompany the exhibition of Paul Virilio's
photographs at the Pompidou Center. The author's haunting photographs are
accompanied by his analysis of the architecture of war in both
philosophical and concrete terms. Virilio discusses fortresses and
military space in general and the bunkers themselves, including facsimiles
of original military maps and extracts from Hitler's "Directives of War."
He also examines the role of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, in the rise
of the Third Reich.
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