Paul Virilio in his text, ‘The Administration of Fear’ explains that how the notion of fear and terror as something propagated by proximity and the speed at which things (like communication, technological advancement) occur. Fear has become an environment in the process of developing our world and synthesizing security (video surveillance, movement control, etc.) and health; Virilio found it is extremely problematic and as in such situations our power to act dominates by our power to feel and imagine the real (present) world. Virilio calls it a ‘Promethean gap’. Author also refers this administrative fear to managed and organized fear by States and politics. It is a product of the State, evolved during post-modern, modern era; something the State contributes to, sustains and extends through its activities and often especially through the activities it pursues to counter fear’s by-product.

In Speed & Politics – unable bodies, Virilio reinterpret ‘war model’ as a model of the growth of the modern city and the development of human society. He states that how the speed and influence of politics over society (economic war – a slow down version of war machine of declared war) attempts to modulate the circulation and the momentum of the movements of the urban masses.

In text ‘The Lost Dimension’, Paul Virilio considers the displacement of the concept of dimensional space to that of Einsteinian concept of relative theory to suggest that modern vision and the contemporary city are both the products of military power and time-based cinematic technologies of disappearance. Virilio renders postmodern city and contemporary economy a world of collaborative, interactive and technological advancement offering the world of four walls. He states that the aesthetics of urban fabric gets disappeared in over overexposed city – overexposed in terms of culture, texture, population, technology, economy etc. He argues that ‘the representation of the modern city can no longer depend on the ceremonial opening of gates… From here on, urban architecture has to work with the opening of a new technological space-time’. The notion of a city that is constantly evolving by the use of technology which takes architecture and urban design/planning to next level – from physical movement to electronic and technological movement. The city which is no longer generated by only architecture but through a conscious series of visuals and images.