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A Modest Exercise in Memory and Supposition

Christopher Hills-Wright

1999, 04:00 minutes, B&W, English

TAPECODE 191.01

During N.A.T.O.’s bombardment of Serbia during the Kosovo conflict in the spring of 1999, the media reacted as might have been expected: it produced two sides, labelling one as being good and the other as being bad, or even crazy. As it is far easier to wage war against civilians when those civilians are bad, crazy people, this distinction was useful if not universally accurate.

A Modest Exercise is a reminder that a schoolgirl here is very much the same as a schoolgirl over there, across an invisible line.

Pendant le bombardement de la Serbie par l'O.T.A.N, durant le conflict de Kosovo au printemps 1999, les média ont réagit de façonprévisable: en divisant le conflit entre le bon et le mauvais (voire même fou), deux cotés distinctes.

Vu qu'il est plus logique de condamner ce qui est mauvais, et d'entrer en guerre contre des citoyens dites mauvaises, ou fous, cette opposition était utile, quoiqu'elle manquait de précision.

A Modest Exercise est un rappel descrét qu'une écolière d'içi est trés semblable à une écolière de la bas, à travers une ligne invisible.

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