The Industrial Revolution accelerated culture very quickly to the point where it ended up in the First World War. Basically the First World War was, for me, the result of an acceleration. And then it literally blows out by a dynamite charge, as in Hiroshima. It's a very powerful kind of thing that occurred. Now the artist in this context is completely overwhelmed by this.
War is very radical.
I have a theory of eruption which accounts for artwork, but it also accounts for warforms, accounts for sudden environment changes in psychology and culture. It's called the Volcanic Theory, where basically the surface of reality, the structure of people's reality acquires a certain level of stability when a certain media configuration has established itself, and where the written is allowed to mature into something that everybody more or less agrees on. What's happening in Bosnia right now is a typical case of different speeds. These are cultures that have been forced to live at much lower speeds than the ones that other cultures were allowed to reach, and this came because of the pressure of the Russians. The Russians themselves are going at much slower speeds than the rest of the western world.