Via Boing Boing: Because of the Cold War emphasis on dystopias, Cold War writers like Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Samuel R. Delany had to find radical new ways to express their inexpressible hopes about the future, claims Jameson. At this moment of neoliberal triumphalism, he suggests, we should take these writers […]
Another one via Boing Boing… The Authentic History Center presents This Godless Communism. currently playing: Radiohead “Where I End And You Begin”
When it comes to Russian propaganda posters and other Cold War nostalgia, nothing beats a visit to BoingBoing.
Via Boing Boing: Another one to file under “Cold War Nostalgia” — Unrealized Soviet Architecture. And on another tip: Nine Inch Nails has a GarageBand file up for their new song “The Hand That Feed.” Officially, the coolest way to promote your new music. r0xx0r! UPDATE: More neat stuff on this Russian site for this […]
Another one to file under “Soviet/Cold War Obession”: The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters. (Again, via Boing Boing.)
BoingBoing feeds my Cold War Nostalgia addiction w/ this link to Soviet-era cartoons. I was thrilled to see that there was a clip from “??, ??????!” — which I saw in my 9th-12th grade Russian classes. Soooooo funny. Say it w/ me: “??, ??????!” (noo poh-ga-dee) currently playing: Spylab “Celluloid Hypnotic”
I guess that the Cold war is officially over.
So apparently not even the internet … not Google, not IMDB … not no one has heard of this movie. It just kind of popped in there a couple of days ago and now I can’t seem to get it to go away. The same visions of the silent, brown haired woman in a jacket, […]