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it is interesting to see the extent to which there is already a kind of symbolic conflict going on about the meaning of the election across the medium of maps.
and it is nice to see this thread, which tracks the conflict.
obviously, the right wants to use colored graphics to convince itself and the rest of us that there is more unanimity than anyone would otherwise think, given the actually existing results of the election. i am interested in this process. cool graphics did not help colin powell before the unsc in teh run-up to the iraq war--i suspect it will not help the right in tis attempts to claim for itself the single voice of "real america"...
the most interesting graphic i have seen so came in an email from someone where i teach---it juxtaposes the pre-civil war map of the us (1860) to the conservative color-scheme for the last election. it is interesting--stands teh meaning of the conservative graphics on their head. i am still trying to find another copy of it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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