Inner Screens and Cybernetic Battlefields: Paul Virilio and RoboCop

Brian Sudlow is lecturer in French with translation studies at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is the author of Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England 1880–1914 (2011) and the editor of National Identities in France (2011). He has written about a number of European thinkers, including René Girard, Régis Debray, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Giorgio Agamben. His most recent work concerns the tradition of technopessimism among twentieth-century French intellectuals, of whom Paul Virilio is only the latest in a long and distinguished line.