I am very interested in these two Virilio’s notions ;”city of fear”, “city of screens”. I can even connect them in my mind and say city of fearful screens.

Virilio speaks about the ruin of the distance, position, and the notions of “here ” and “there”, he speaks about screens all over the city, and he continues that the opacity of building materials is reduced to zero. “Curtain walls made of light and transparent materials and even screens”. I think more and more about the ones who are responsible about the prophecy and importance of the visual quality of the city and even more critical; about people being influenced unconsciously by them. And here is the fear; it seems that ones for whom I  have sought are ones about whom Virilio says: “they are tempted to create policies for the orchestration and management of fear”.

“when you have passed through the corridor, they know everything about you”. Maybe that’s why urban planners tried to annihilate the idea of “”gated communities”[in 70s and 80s] as the physical sample of a gate. I read this sentence several times and each time I thought about the moment which I accepted something in order to enter somewhere (could be a virtual place) while I knew that I would lose something in return. I think about both the mentioned sentence and the very familiar one; “I agree to the terms and conditions”. This is maybe the new form of a gate..

And finally I want to just quote the sentence by which I am  strongly impressed from Virilio and add nothing in continue.

“we are entering the potential disorientation of traditional guidelines for law and the unlawful, with the deconstruction of the rule of law soon leading to the disorientation of politics.”