Through out his texts, Paul Virilio emphasizes on how our world has been connecting with one another through various means. He discusses this through war in his text, “Unable Bodies”. He doesn’t necessarily portray it in a gruesome way, but more on how we as a society are constantly at war over power. Everybody wants to be more powerful than than the next guy. Different countries would approach it differently. My favorite one would definitely how Germany handled it. As Virilio states, “the German army had few or no exemptions. for it had decided to make physical handicaps functional by using ah man according to his specific disability: the deaf will serve in heavy artillery…”.  Given the military as an example, it is constantly progressing and improving. The better our military, logically, the stronger we are and the more power we would have over the other countries, right? Depending on the importance of the task, governments would handle them either faster or slower.

In his text, “The Overexposed City”, he discusses about how our cities are necessarily considered the focal point anymore. “To go into town” isn’t made up of the same definition as it used to anymore, it is  now “to go to town”. The reason being that our cities are moving as a faster pace  now, we are given the internet and transportation systems. These systems have slowly decreased distances between the town and the village, the physical boundary between the two have slowly drifted due to the new systems. “Today, people are divided according to the aspects of time.” All the new interactions that the city has been exposed to has played a huge role in the transformation. Taking the airport as an example. it brings in and ships out people of all sorts of backgrounds. But woven into the airport’s interactions with other airports is a network that’s connecting smaller hubs with other hubs in the airport. Cities are made up of a network of networks, soon enough, it all blends together blurring the lines of the cities’ “boundaries”.

“The Administration of Fear” addresses how society has been dealing with speed and fear. As great as it is to be fast paced and advanced, sometimes it can really get to people. “Despite its democratic regime, the feeling of chaos starts to reach people. We can observe how the Paris Subway and suburban rail strikes, unlike the TGV strikes were strikes that affected the city…”. Our constant crave for power and control, not only over the society but also our lives, has caused people to lose relationships with the material world due to electronics. This is mainly due to the fact that we now have the ability to talk to someone that is half way around the world without having to really leave the comfort of ones home. It is very unfortunate how deep we have submerged our society into the electromagnetic waves of technology. Thankfully, the material world is well within our reach, for now.