Olympic Dreams and Nightmares

September 29, 2012 by philco

This gallery of 192 images contains the following sections:

Mix n Kitsch
Scenes from the Tempest
The Nay Sayers :images of protest
The Anti-Industrial machine
The Ceremonies-inter-ludology
Carrying the torch-
Ideal worlds and imaginary cities
Dialectics of the Enlightenment

It is designed as a visual essay to compliment Part two of ‘On the Wrong Side of the Track?’

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