ABSTRACT
In War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, one of Virilio’s most influential books, Virilio outlines the development of a ‘veritable logistics of perception, in which a supply of images would become the equivalent of an ammunition supply. Virilio is interested in outlining how the 'history of battle is primarily the history of radically changing fields of perception'. the interest in ‘vision machines’ Virilio argues that the ‘battlespace’ produces a ‘field of perception’, and technological/architectural developments transform or revolutionize the field of perception. There is a constant desire to revolutionize the ‘logistics of perception’ because the side who sees faster and more extensively is potentially the most powerful; this ‘power’ is now enhanced for the side that sees most intensively, the side, in other words, who can create the most detailed, ‘information-rich’, real-time picture of a situation, of different types of circulation, and then have the organizational infrastructure to act on the information or evidence.
