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