On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> US-based innovations?
>
> TV: Mad Men, the Wire, Sopranos
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> Film: Charlie Kaufman, Tim Burton, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Solondz
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> Literature: Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and McSweeney's, Don De Lillo
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> A black presidency, and the networking-based campaign that got it going
> (admittedly the second part owes something to S. Korea's)
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> Facebook, Twitter, and social networking sites
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> The Tea Party (OK, so you don't like it, but it is still an important
> innovation)
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> The campaign against the Iraq war
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> Seattle and the anti-capitalist campaign
>