- Georges Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy: �riors and Peasants, Ithaca, 1 974.
- The Boarding of Metabolic Vehicles
1 . Trans. : Untranslatable pun between araisonnement, "the boarding of a ship for inspection," and raisonnement, "reasoning. " Virilio will play on this throughout the chapter.
- "Man is the passenger of woman, not only at birth but also in their sexual relations . . . Paraphrasing Samuel Butler, we could say that the female is the means the male has found to reproduce himself, in other words to come into the world. In this sense, woman is the species' first means of transport, its very first vehicle. The second would be the mounting and coupling 'of d\_issimilar bodies fitted out for migration, the voyage in common." Paul Virilio, Metempsychose du passager, May 1 977.
- Trans. A play on words: bonne conduite means both "good conduct" and "safe driving."
- See notably the archives of Morimond (Haute-Marne region) and Clairvaux; the libraries of Besanc;on and Carpentras; L'ordre de Calatrava by Francis Gutton, 1 9 5 5 ; etc.
- Cf. Paul Virilio, Negative Horizon. London: Continuum, 200 5 .
- Here we see perhaps one of the profound causes of Spartan opposition to any form of mobiliry as the preservation of the Lycurgean system.
- The End of the Proletariat
1 . Trans. A play on the word meuble, both "furniture" and "movable."
- D. Crivelli, La fin de la crise, 1 932. Proto-pop culture and European culture.
- "Could I yet have imagined that this absolutely necessary historical evolution, in determined conditions, constituted a retreat of progress and manufactured men who were less than savages . . . Engels in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
- Letter from Charles V to ambassador Ghislain de Busbecq.
- "Human history is al an afair of chance." A statement that Heideger, on the eve of total war, renders less freely than it would seem: ''Al greatness is in assault."
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