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Reconfiguring the Present: A 2020 List of Other Futures

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Article
https://www.frieze.com/article/reconfiguring-present-2020-list-other-futures
Journal
frieze
Issued Date
January 03, 2021
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
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Book
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Writer
Don Mee Choi

About the Author

  • Don Mee Choi
  • Birth : 1962 ~ -
  • Occupation : Translator, Poet
  • First Name : -
  • Family Name : -
  • Korean Name : Don Mee Choi
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 0
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  • English(English)

No neat fixes from 2020, a year ripe with human-induced atrocities. As is every 12-month cycle, of course, but this one was special. Bushfires, wildfires, murder hornets. Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Casey Goodson, Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor – to name only a few of the Black folks killed by police in the US. We trespassed on animal ecologies. Now, contagion reigns, dictating where we wander. Demagogues dominate landmasses on multiple continents. We should stop saying: ‘It’s like a movie.’ At this point, blockbusters are looking to us for inspiration.  

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