Tank covered in bookshelves: Weapon of Mass Instruction

An Argentine artist has built a tank covered in bookshelves that he drives through the streets of Buenos Aires and remote towns, operating it as a kind of bookmobile, or "weapon of mass instruction."

Literature gets a ride in the streets of Buenos Aires (Thanks, Scott!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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benzie

also relevant to the story is the history of ford falcons in argentina: the government drove green ford falcons when they were kidnapping their own citizens during the dirty war. those cars hold a lot of symbolism for argentines, so the artist’s choice there was definitely not random.
Dougo

Could also call it a Think Tank,
Anonymous

And I thought the HOL RPG was just a pastiche of sci-fi clichÃ©s and gaming tropes. Turned out it was a prophecy of Brazil in 2010.

PS: AFP – part of the cancer that is killing America
Anonymous

aww wish the video worked.
Stuart Ellis

Please, someone send a whole battalion of those tanks to Texas.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37220562/ns/us_news-life/?Gt1=43001
turnstyle

fwiw, the embed is blocked, but the video plays fine on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFi27PQ2bxo
Sekonda

Why has AFP blocked?
- Agies
  
  Because they don’t get any money from ads when someone views an embedded video.
  - AirPillo
    
    But… they don’t get any money if people view it directly on youtube, either…
amgunn

This tank piece is well-meaning, but stupid, and one more reason antiwar people are treated as fopsy hippies by the prowar crowd.
- Andrew W
  
  Yeah, man, you tell ‘em! Stupid smart people with their learnin’ and their books. Buncha hippies. Bet they all go home at night and cry into their herbal tea that Donald Rumsfeld won’t come around for lentil roast.
MadRat

“This video contains content from afp. It is restricted from playback on certain sites.” Guess afp doesn’t like BoingBoing.