Future daze

Steve Mumford

I don't often do this kind of direct linkage from the blog, but I've found some very interesting artistic reactions to the Iraq Invasion and Continuing War over on N+1 mag.

Of course I’m ambivalent about the war, and feel that the arrogance of Bush and his team really screwed a lot up, making the going much worse than it had to have been. However, I believe that we have to see it through, since Iraq has really become the prime training ground for Al Qaida now. I’m not sure that Americans realize how Sunni fundamentalism defines the insurgency and how dangerous and profoundly racist it is.

Here's an interview and some interpretations and some more symposium pieces. Well worth it, methinks.