Further to the dramatic photographs of the falling towers of Detroit as a symbol for the prophesied demise of the United States, Pavel Chichikov sent me this wonderful rendition of the Anglo-Saxon poem, The Ruin. Although the translation is not as good as others that I’ve come across, the juxtaposition of the Anglo-Saxon poet musing over the ruins of Roman civilization with the images of the ruins of a post-industrial waste land is powerfully evocative:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIZrlid5UE