Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
Monday, February 01, 2010
Anti-American Art: Swept Away
Here's the cover of a North Vietnamese booklet from the 1960s. I don't have a translation for it; though it's not too hard to guess at its content. It's really a jarringly beautiful photo of a female Vietnamese fighter pulling wreckage from a downed American airplane out of the surf. Such a powerful image with so much implied.
Labels:
anti-Americana,
anti-imperialism,
Peace,
Vietnam
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