Science Fiction and the Angel of History

A review of, ‘Sorry to Bother You’

"It was 100 years ago… by which I mean last Monday" Brooke Gladstone of NPR's On the Media sighed after Trump's performance in Helsinki. Whatever one thinks about our current president, Gladstone's sigh is the kind of thing one hears a lot these days, as the calamities and once-in-a-century happenings pile up ...
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Science Fiction and the Angel of History

Mass Shooting and the Spectacle of Whiteness

Lynching as spectacle 

Fredric Jameson once noted that déjà vu is possible for an experience one has never had: postmodernism is an amnesia of eternal returns. I remember when I witnessed the unfolding of the Columbine massacre on CNN – the event that culturally marked the beginning of an era of school shootings – it ...
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Mass Shooting and the Spectacle of Whiteness