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If you鈥檝e ever lost track of what day it is after a series of
continent-hopping plane flights, or indeed all sense of self鈥攅xcept for
your trusty mouse hand鈥攚hen surfing the Net, you may well agree with the
sentiments of Paul Virilio in Open Sky. Virilio rages against the destruction of
鈥渞eal鈥� spaces and distances in our world by the technological developments of
high-speed travel and telecommunications. But unless you can stomach supposedly
meaningful phrases such as 鈥渙ne day the day will come when the day will not
come鈥�, you had better put the book down and log back on as just another terminal
in cyberspace. Maybe something was lost in translation, but this is so intense
that you have to tackle one sentence at a time to try to grasp what Virilio is
getting at. Highlighting concepts such as 鈥渢he death of geography鈥� in italics
doesn鈥檛 help matters either. Published by Verso, 拢10, ISBN 1859841813.