The original we-they dichotomy that gave rise to the city is a first order opposition. The second order is the simulated perpetual war of the city that maintains the political-social. The third order comes when technology makes possible such speed that there is no longer any time between perception of the enemy and its strategy and the event the enemy is engineering. No time to plan, engineer, no time for the political, the social. The bomb bursts without warning.
Perception plays a big part in all three thinkers' discussion.
Time is suspended, so to speak, not measurable, a sort of Kaironomia , a stepping out of time. This unrepresentable moment may be, then, a sublime moment. Beauty is in the picnoleptic perception of the sublime, is perhaps one way to put this. Baudrillard speaks of disappearance of meaning, while Virilio speaks of a disappearance of perceivable time. V. says that after the orgy, we should be Howard Hughes, who lived intensely.