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Ideological Fission: Cloverfield and Terrorism

After the very successful conference Monsters and the Monstrous, I’m posting my paper here.
One of the first things which is immediately noticeable about Matt Reeves’ Cloverfield is the way it serves as a form of the return of the repressed of 9/11. Most critics who saw it, could not help but remark upon the similarity [...]

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Negotiating the Future

For the Negotiating the Future seminar, I’m in the workshop entitled “What is the future? The end of the present, a monster or just a metaphor?” The following is an attempt to synthesize our thoughts a bit.
Both of your pieces deal with how the future can be conceptualized as different from the present – not [...]

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