The common once-in-a-century pandemic turning into mental hell because this time it is taking place in neo-liberal times and the age of surveillance capitalism. The televised genocide on Palestinians, an Israeli Apartheid based on racial superiority that’s being feverishly supported in my country. A falling Empire that’s leaving the world with the monsters and masters …
Nothing Less Than A Cultural Revolution: Damon Albarn – The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows (2021)
Amitav Ghosh‘s The Great Derangement (2016) is one tremendous book which examines the question why climate change is not being reflected in contemporary literature and modern art in general. It would be impossible to summarize Ghosh’s elaborate and nuanced thought lines in just a few paragraphs: the Indian writer takes his reader on a journey …