Only those who recognize the invisible, hidden from sight by the visible, are able to see the world. Virilio's is the gift of clairvoyance, in the age of total transparency. If everything is visible, scientifically visible, permanently veri- or falsifiable, then it becomes impossible to form a coherent world view. Coherence becomes possible only through the absence of information, through the need to form one's own links beyond the absences, interspaces and intervals. Virilio is against disinformation, but is a supporter of temporary uninformed zones.
Understanding can only derive from seeing nothing occasionally.
Negative thinking remains close to the body. It translates the prospect of death into the strategy of taking every social development to its logical conclusion. It is not a case of the extrapolation of the present into the future, but of the happy recognition that even what is to come is already past. Doom does not await us, and the signs of the apocalyps are all around. As a thinker of '77, radical negativism is Virilio's logical starting point.