The real trick – and the reason why the Super Bowl spot struck a chord around Michigan and beyond, he says, “is to tell the story of how the city is trying to claw back.”But the Chrysler ad was cool, even though I don't like Eminem, or Chrysler:
The meaning from this comes subtly, he adds, “to the extent that these messages spur conversations about what’s next for Detroit, they’re meaningful.”
To the degree that they sentimentalize and overlook the ravages of displaced workers and manufacturing flight, they are what John McCarthy, a professor of urban history at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, calls “Rust Belt chic.”
He maintains that viewing blighted cities as blank slates for outsiders to compose upon – artists or not – is arrogant and undermines genuine progress towards renewal. “I don’t see anything in the Robocop image that is positive for the city of Detroit,” he says, noting that the primary message it sends is at best, “an ironic one.”
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Robocop statue in Detroit?
From the Christian Science Monitor:
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The national collector's mint Incorporated of New York should be ashamed of themselves for trying to take advantage of the American public that might not realize what a scam this really is, please folks don't be fooled,do not buy these coins,this is a complete and total fraud.
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