1. Of particular importance is Virilio, P. 1989 War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, London: Verso Press.

2. Ibid., p. 59.

3. Ibid., p. 7.

4. Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of War, trans. Chris Turner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994).

5. Baudrillard's theory of 'hyper-reality' deserves serious attention when questioning our historical present and its future. See: Baudrillard 1983 Simulacra and Simulations, New York: Semiotext(e).