French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter s Journey "are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror.

The dialogues in "A Winter" "s Journey "structured loosely around the dates 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980 chart Virilio s intimate intellectual biography, from his childhood lived against the unstable...