Representation destroys the place it celebrates more than violence does

Evidence

The colour film demolishes the genial old tavern to a greater extent than bombs ever could: the film exterminates its imago. No homeland can survive being processed by the films which celebrate it, and which thereby turn the unique character on which it thrives into an interchangeable sameness. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 146

Categorization

• CANDY: A sharp aphoristic line — the film destroys the tavern more than bombs do — that carries real conceptual weight in a single image.
• XREF: connects to: Writing up a place serves as proto-violence that writes it off. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 267