viz.

Gerry Canavan has posted a collection of images of the Statue of Liberty taken from science fiction stories and films.

Fantastic Universe, August-September 1953

from Thundarr the Barbarian

This list should be a great conversation starter for any classes discussing the rhetoric of science fiction or Americana.

Lucaites at No Caption Needed has posted an interesting analysis of the recent dustup between the U.S. and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Lucaites, the argument that the Bush administration has tried to make about the incident through the images—photos and video—released by the U.S., “relies upon two optics or visual logics, one drawing upon a Cold War consciousness and the other drawing upon the logic of the ‘suicide bomber.’ ”