This is a world war of "two visions" that first "clashed in Afghanistan" and "have now met in Iraq". It was in this speech that he proposed tearing down and replacing Abu Ghraib prison, despite having neglected to provide for it in his budget.
The narrator makes a trip to Saint-Julien, the site of both the death of his grandfather, John Culpepper, in World War I and the filming of "Visions Fugitives".
He is the author of "Visions of War". When I was in college, an Armenian American acquaintance told me about his grandfather's obsession with the Turkish genocide against his people in the early part of the 20th century.
We see da Vinci visualizing mighty ideas from the arts of peace to the science of war--great visions of the earth, the mystery of mathematical proportion in the design of the universe, detailed observations on the motion of waters, and meticulous reconstructions of how heart valves function, as well as his flying machine, tank, and giant crossbow.
It will be an enormous culture jam, a protracted war of ideas, ideologies and visions of the future.
These are organizations that have battled one other in a bitter war of words and technology visions.
It is of course unclear how long Eastern Europeans will cling to their cold war vision of the United States as the gravitational center of the West.
That is precisely what democracy is meant to be: a civil war of ideas, rhetoric and vision pitting passionate challengers versus equally passionate incumbents.
When you hear "bidding war," visions of rapid-fire auction chanting might come to mind: One dollar bid, now two, now two, will you give me two... sold!
Making Post-war Manchester: Visions of an Unmade City is at Manchester Technology Centre until 24 June, as part of Manchester Histories festival.
