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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      3. That scene has a pre-history. Almost as soon as Statue of Liberty was erected in 1886, people began imagining it as a ruin.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      4. John Ames Mitchell's novel The Last American (1889: 3 years after Statue of Liberty built) about Persians in 2951 CE who visit ruined USA

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      5. One of the first sights the 30th century Persians see in post-apocalyptic USA is Statue of Libertypic.twitter.com/gnNGfYU7az

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      6. As @john_clute has traced out, visions of a Statue of Liberty as a misunderstood ruin show in other SF novels before Planet of the Apes.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      7. Reason for recurring image is science fiction was product not only of industrial age but also discovery of deep history by archeology.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      8. In late 18th and early 19th century, archeology created a new sense of past as a living presence in the form of ruins: a littered past.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      9. Percy Shelley was among the poets most influenced by new awareness of the past as ruins: "Ozymandias" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias …

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      10. It's no accident that the ruin-loving Shelley was married to first real science fiction writer: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      11. Science fiction is an attempt to apply historical thinking to the future: to imagine a future as different as the past.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      12. One powerful trope in science fiction is the ruins of futurity: imaging contemporary monuments turning into Ozymandias' statue.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

      13. There's a second aspect to the ruins of futurity, which is that the destruction of monuments is secretly thrilling.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

          14. Think of the countless science fiction movies where the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, White House, Taj Mahal, Pyramids are destroyed.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

          15. In 1927, the Russian fantasist Sigismund Krzyzanowski imagined the Eiffel Tower coming to life.pic.twitter.com/8kssuCMfqH

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

          16. Krzyzanowski's fantasy is rooted in the fear monuments can provoke. They loom over us, burden us, belittle us. We want to destroy them

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

          17. Here's a 1953 cover for Fantastic Universe which might have influenced the Planet of the Apes final scene.pic.twitter.com/hqtTEvWTDQ

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

          18. And here's the same artist (Alex Schomberg) riffing on theme in 1964 (four years before Planet of the Apes).pic.twitter.com/8KPAX6l6oi

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Sep 2017

          19. I'll just end with the great Jack Kirby riffing on this them, post-Planet of the Apes, in Kamandipic.twitter.com/Ss7sSsxaMB

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        1. Rep Eric Gallager (no “h”!)‏ @cooljeanius 8 Sep 2017
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          I'm getting tired I misread "futurity" as "futility"

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        1. Candle‏ @drumandcandle 8 Sep 2017
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          There's also a third aspect in that its an incredibly easy/lazy visual shorthand for dystopia overused by hack writers in SF

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