person
also known as Virilio
French theorist of speed and disappearance, invoked in the series as a marker for a theme rather than as an interlocutor. In dialogue 73 Bob reaches for him to name the postmodern discourse of disappearance, and then uses him as the baseline Kroker is said to have exceeded.
Across the dialogues
73
Cited for the theme rather than the argument — disappearance is credited to him, then immediately handed to Kroker, who is said to have pushed it further with McLuhan's help
The attribution is deliberately loose — what matters to Bob is that disappearance was already the postmodern subject, so Kroker's contribution can be measured as degree rather than discovery.
"I mean, I think it was Virilio, he talked about the disappearance of the postmodern era."
Connections
compared withArthur Kroker
Placed among the postmodern writers Kroker is said to have outdone in exaggeration.