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In fact, the accident has suddenly become inhabitable, to the detriment of the substance of the shared world... This is what is meant by the "integral accident", the accident which integrates us globally, and which sometimes even disintegrates us physically. So, in a world which is now foreclosed, where all is explained by mathematics or psychoanalysis, the accident is what remains unexpected, truly suprising, the unknown quantity in a totally discovered planetary habitat, a habitat over-exposed to everyone`s gaze, from which the "exotic" has suddenly disappeared in favour of that "endotic" Victor Hugo called upon when he explained to us that, "It is inside of ourselves that we have to see the outside - a terrible admission of asphyxia."

Paul Virilio, Unknown Quantity, Thames & Hudson, 2003, page 128