Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:22:44 GMT
From: SOC POSTGRADUATE LAB - PC3 <M.Drake-AT-uea.ac.uk>
Subject: DROMO: Re: Pure War


Hi Simon,

Maybe indeed there is not anybody out there, only wills without bodies!

You asked about Pure War. As far as I can ascertain it is still effectively out of print, 
though AK distribution, who handle the publishers Semiotext(e) in the UK, had it in 
their catalogue as reprinted last year. I had an order through Waterstones but it has 
never arrived, and AK told me about a year ago that Semiotext(e) were 
having 'problems' with reprinting it.

I did manage to borrow a copy through ILL (from the University of Essex). Its quite 
useful in filling in the neo-Catholic background to some of his more obscure 
pronouncements. I have only recently discovered that there seems to be something 
of a recent tradition of Catholicist critique of technologism -Jacques Ellul's stuff is  
stylistically and methodologically fairly distant from Virilio, but the underlying 
precepts are similar.
Maybe you or someone else could fill in some more detail on this theological 
dimension?

Mike Drake
UEA Norwich  
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:45:01 +0100 FC606440-AT-ntu.ac.uk wrote:

> From: FC606440-AT-ntu.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:45:01 +0100
> Subject: DROMO: Hello is anybody out there?
> To: dromology-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> 
> Hi,
> Just sending a post to see if anybody is actually on this list. I've only
> been on here about a week but the action=zero.
> Anyway, could anyone let me know if it's possible to get hold of Virilio's
> Pure War in the UK or is it out of print?
> Chhers,
> Simon