Middle East, Social Sciences, Middle Eastern, History & Theory, Political History 

Desert Screen ias a vision of future war, in which Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning-point in history, the last industrial and the first information war.
Virilio presents his chronicles of Gulf War as the reflections of an 'attentive telespectator of a world war in miniature'. The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed several other wars in miniature and witnessed them increasingly in 'real time'. Virilio argues that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, a world still exhausted from the geopolitics of the Cold War, a world in which the politics of military and media technology seem to preclude the possiblity of negotiation and diplomacy.
The long-awaited translation also includes a new interview with Virilio, in which he reconsiders his original analysis of the Gulf War in the light of subsequent conflict and its representation. 

"One of the most original thinkers of our time." - Liberation "Virilio writes on the edge of physics, philosophy, politics and urbanism" - New Statesman Desert Screen is a vision of future war. Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio argues that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, a world still exhausted from the geopolitics of the Cold War, a world in which the politics of military and media technology seem to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy. - from Amzon 

Acknowledgements.............................................................................vi

Preface by James Der Derian...............................................................vii

DESERT SCREEN

I Foreword........................................................................................1

II August 1990: Desert Shield...............................................................17

III January 1991: Desert Storm.............................................................41

IV June 1991: Desert Screen.................................................................107

V Virilio Looks Back and Sees the Future:
Interview by James Der Derian (2000) ................................................135

Notes ..............................................................................................140

Index ...............................................................................................145