Paul Virilio shows how the explosion of the information bomb has direct repercussions on humans and their experience of the nation-state, of the city and of world-space. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari draw repeatedly on Virilio when they declare that every critical relation, no matter what discipline it uses or represents, has to be treated in view of the world he describes. As Virilio put it, when addressing what he calls Deleuze and Guattari's “poetic or nomadological understanding of the world,”

Spatial consciousness is ubiquitous in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. It informs their theory of an event, which Virilio employs in a catastrophic sense, insofar as a sensation of space often becomes the event as it “takes place” and is as quickly abolished. It also subtends their politics, which in their lexicon means creating openings that will enable becomings. Becomings engage what so far has been called existential territorialization.