Cultural writing. Part of the Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series. All technical objects brought about accidents that were specific, local, and situated in time and space. Through the new communication technologies, we have created the possibility of an accident that is no longer local, but global, and that would occur everywhere at the same time. We are faced with an original phenomenon: the emergence of the accident of accidents. The text is an interview conducted by Philipe Petit. Paul Virilio is recognized as the philospher of speed and as an authority on war technology. He recently retired to work on his book on the Accident, to be published in the year 2000.