"Progress and catastrophe are the opposite faces of the same coin" Hanna Arendt (1968) Accidents fascinate Paul Virilio. From the first train derailment to the crash of the stock market, accidents have served as a kind of diagnostic by which Virilio assesses the value and danger of new technologies. Television has become a "museum of accidents"; cyberspace ean accident of the real". Globalization is a hoax, virtualization is the reality, and we are fast approaching the day of the ebig accident", when virtual reality finally overpowers the real thing. Comprendez?It is no accident - as French intellectuals before Virilio liked to say - that when Virilio's dromology (the study of speed) crashes head-long into semiology (the study of signs) the order of things starts to look precarious. Over a diverse career as professor of architecture, film critic, urbanist, military historian, peace strategist, and in the course of over a dozen books, Virilio has interrogated the integral relationships of security and territory, war and cinema, speed and politics, technology and culture, and left no prisoners: what stale thought he does not liquidate with corrosive intellect, he liberates with rhetorical excess. This makes for a difficult, sometimes frustrating, but almost always an inspiring read.Accidents surrounded our interview. In 1976, I discovered Virilio when I wandered by chance into an Paris museum exhibition on "Bunker Archeology," Virilio's remarkable compilation of photographs, documents, and text on Hitler's Atlantic Wall. At the end of our interview, I discovered that twenty years ago we both had been attacked by street-fighters from the same neo-fascist party. We swapped war stories and compared scars at La Coupole Restaurant in Paris.Der Derian: Is the author dead? Leia a entrevista completa A Catedral de Brasilia, na obra do artistaMeschac Gaba1961, Cotonou (Benin) SURVEY: CITIESThe world goes to townMay 3rd 2007From The Economist print editionAfter this year the majority of people will live in cities. Human history will ever more emphatically become urban history, says John Grimond (interviewed here) How the rise of the megacity is changing the way we live http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/21/rise-megacity-live?cat=society&type=article 27a Bienal de Sao PauloComo Viver JuntoMeschac Gaba1961, Cotonou (Benin). LILYPAD A ecopole do futurohttp://blog.arthurcasas.com/arquitetura/lilypad-a-ecopole-do-futuro "Accumulation puts an end to the impression of chance"Sigmund Freud (1914-1915) "Quando uma leve brisa bater no teu corpo, nao te assustes porque e a minha saudade que esta beijando em silencio o teu corpo." domingo fomos no armazem do limao la e otimo sao 27km e uma otima trilha depois da trilha e so almoca pq la fz um otimo rango e acompanhado de moda de viola e muito da hora trilha do gp ravelli e otimas trilha e uma corrida de sao roque do circuto historico de mountn aibike bike show foi otimo estava um sol do caraio mas e assim mesmo esta foi da hora um otima trilha gp ravelli "Quando uma leve brisa bater no teu corpo, nao te assustes porque e a minha saudade que esta beijando em silencio o teu corpo." no rancho do meu irma que e perto cabo verde na repreza de furnas muito gostoso nos dirvertmos muito