A.Glass updates and insight (update 49)

(Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon trailer - game)

I can't think of any other book written in the last 15 years, that essentially captures the popular culture obsession of the destruction of cities.  The book is The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction written by Max Page a Professor of Architecture and History (University of Massachusetts).  With the bulk of the main fantasies, in the case of pop cultures premonitions, are of New York's demise.  What held my attention with The City's End was Page's homage to late 1970's and 1980's movies, books and comics that played with the city's apocalyptic scenarios (as entertainment) all centered around a battered and broken New York City.  Drawing in references of our fears of wars, virus out-breaks, natural disasters, alien invasions, killer robots etc. His conclusive narrative is of our desires to try and foretell the future, which again popular culture delivers and projects a reassured vision of our fears -  no matter how dire.  That in the end from a city's destruction is rebirth.  

Which brings me to this current reemergence in 1980's post apocalyptic and/or stylized futures that never were, although not directly influenced by Page's book, it does seem that a look at the past (please refer to A.Glass updates and insight (update 43)) to re-access our premised pop culture fears of a troubled future is gaining speed.

So far the 'homage' of 1980's pre and post apocalypse/dystrophic entertainment is being lead by an updated influence of it's sound tracks and the 'video' nostalgia of the new game  Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (above).

Enjoy.