the line of text is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (an old friend of mine!) and the images are a sequence from the film (commissioned and subsequently suppressed by Chrysler Corp in 1957) by the great Len Lye. For the anti-capitalists among us Detroit represents much more than just the beginning of the end for a sinister form of economic production but the start of a new age in which the Detroit National Park becomes the first city under the aegis of the National Park Service (US Department of the Interior), circa 2025 -- those being the kind of grooves of perpetual change that Tennyson recognizes in the first steam engine that thunders past him circa 1835, tho that's not to deny him the same affection for Omar S or Carl Craig that I have!Best wishes,Paul
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