Tele Prince or The White Horse and the little shit

Tele Prince or The White Horse and the little shit  by CoPdesign

In the manner of Alzheimer's disease, television destroys our past feelings. Viewed form the present, D Day has shrivelled in a speeded-up perspective effect that the small screen accentuates. While the illustrated history book evokes the mental imagery of real or emblematic memories, the television monitor collapses memory's close-ups and cancels the coherence of our fleeting impressions. It is hardly an accident, after all, that the Italian neo-fascist leader Gianfranco Fini, profiting from such amnesia, recently told a journalist form La Stampa: "I wonder if D Day, with the American landing, isn't also the day Europe lost its cultural identity".


Fifty years on, with victory metamorphosing into defeat, the job of disinformation is thus done, a piece of deception achieved by both politics and the media.


Paul Virilio
The Avant-Garde of Forgetting