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From: jorn@MCS.COM (Jorn Barger)
Subject: Map-Line: USA turned upsidedown
Date: 1996/05/03
Message-ID: <4md5pp$c6v@Venus.mcs.com>#1/1
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organization: The Responsible Party
newsgroups: alt.co-evolution,alt.ascii-art



Some years back the Co-evolution Quarterly printed a world map
that was turned upsidedown (all the name-labels were inverted).
The idea was that the normal orientation is arbitrary, and assumes
a sort of 'northern superiority' that they wanted to subvert...

So here's a couple of US-turned-upsidedown maps:




                                   ._,                             
           .\.                     |  \                            
           |  \                   /    \                           
            \  |         ,---,___/      \_/\                       
             \  '__-____'--,  |             \  _._,                
              \_---.-' |   /  |          |~~~~~ |  ~'-.            
              /    |   |   |~~~\___,     |      |     .-___        
             /'\    \__|__/    |    ~|   |      |     |    \       
           /'-__'-/~      |    |     |___|      |     |\.   ~.     
          /      /__----~~/~~~~~.-------+-------|-----'  \   '.    
          \--~~~_,/    _-~\     |       |       |    |    \   |    
          |    /  \__.' |  \    |_______|       |    |     \  '.   
         ,|'\_/_ .'  |  |   |----\      '---------.  |     |   |   
         /}~~~~~_| _,| .-,  /     \__    |        |__|___  |   |   
        _'}     .-~/ ~~| |--|_____|  ~~~~|        |    | ~~--__|   
     .-'_|'~~~~~|  \_. | |   \    \      |________|    |       /   
     '\~|'.  -~~     (_/ /    }   |------|         \  /       |    
     .'|| |_/          /__\_ /     \     |          | |~~--~-_/    
    <  '/~                  '---__ |_____|_______   | /      |     
     \ |                          '              ~~~---__  |\_\    
     '~                                                  ~~'       




                                   ._,
           .\.                     |  \
      Miami*  \  New Orleans      /    \
            \  |         *---,_*Houston \_/\
             \  '__-____'--,  |             \  _._,
              \_---.-' |   /  |   Dallas |~~~~~ |  ~'-.
           Atlanta |   |   |~~~\_*_,     |      |     .-___
             /'\  * \__|__/    |    ~|   |      |     |    *Los Angeles
           /'-__'-/~      *Memphis   |___|  *Santa Fe |\.   ~.
          /      /__----~~/~~~~~.-------+-------|-----'  \   '.
          \--~~~_,/    _-~\     |       |       |    |    \   *San Fran.
          |DC  /  \__.' |  *StL *KC_____|  *Denver   |Reno*\  '.
         ,|'*_/_ .'  |  |   |----\      '---------.  |     |   |
         /}~~~~~_| _,| .-*Chicago \__    |        |__|___  |   |
      NYC'}     .-~/ ~~| |--|_____|  ~~~~|        |    | ~~--__|
     .-'_*'~~~~~|  \_. | |   \    \      |________|    |       /
Boston*~|'.  -~~     (_/ /    *Mnpls-----|         \  /       |
     .'|| |_/          /__\_ /     \     |          | |~~--~*Portland
    <  '/~                  '---__ |_____|_______   | /      |
     \ |                          '              ~~~---__  *\_\
     '~                                                  ~~'Seattle




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