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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15. In 1927, the Russian fantasist Sigismund Krzyzanowski imagined the Eiffel Tower coming to life.pic.twitter.com/8kssuCMfqH
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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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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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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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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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Those stopped for a while after 9/11.
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The entire marketing campaign of the first "Independence Day" basically...
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have you read Joseph Masco's theater of operations? talks about ruins in pop culture linked to (nuclear) crisis in national security.

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I should look that up.
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I swear. I don't understand half the stuff you tweet about and why.
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