Armitage, John

I specialise in the cultural and media theory of Paul Virilio, the French contemporary philosopher and critic of the art of technology . Associated with various conceptions related to architecture, aesthetics, and new information and communications technologies in particular, Virilio is influenced by the continental philosophy or phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and numerous other critical theorists. Virilio s work is unique and as a result shares very little in common with other contemporary cultural and media theorists, although he is often compared with other French t...