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.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Anti-American Art: Talk to the Hand
Classic propaganda imagery from a 1983 North Korean stamp: the hand of the Korean people pushes away American armaments from the DMZ and reunifies Korea. Peaceful reunification remains the stated goal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: it's kind of hard given the vast cultural differences between the two halves of the country how exactly that would work.
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