Dystopian (and yet plausible) plaquefic
Apr. 29th, 2025 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In a speculative public art series, Dara Vandor envisions near-future commemorative plaques marking the US "campaign to liberate the northern territory formerly known as Canada." The CBC clip is here.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only Canadian to be remembering the essays in Close the 49th Parallel etc. (University of Toronto Press, 1970, ed. Ian Lumsden). We've been thinking about this future for a very long time.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only Canadian to be remembering the essays in Close the 49th Parallel etc. (University of Toronto Press, 1970, ed. Ian Lumsden). We've been thinking about this future for a very long time.
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Date: 2025-04-30 03:00 am (UTC)Not joking.
Thinking of comic books like Northguard (the original version by Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morissette) and We Stand on Guard...