"Contrary to appearances, REAL TIME - this 'present' that imposes itself on everyone in the speeding-up of daily reality - is, in fact, only ever the repetition of the splendid academic isolation of bygone days. A mass media academicism that seeks to freeze all originality and all poetics in the inertia of immediacy." pg. 47
Virilio, Paul. Art and Fear (Continuum Impacts). Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006.
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This describes one important attribute in post-modernist visual narratives. Shortened attention spans, heightened sensationalism - a hyper-reality that would inevitably dominate our way of thinking.
It's rather sad.
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