Time of Monsters

History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread

“Experiencing a premonition of its death, our world is producing discordant movements. It is jittery. There was nothing of the like in the nineteenth century. And the twentieth? Two world wars, the atom bomb, Auschwitz, Communism, the division of the world into Reds and Westerners...Humankind somehow got the jitters in the twentieth century, don’t

From the interdictions of quarantine to the forced migration of millions, from post-truth politics to the consequences of extreme weather phenomena, our reality reminds us that the positive futures imagined for the 21st century are in question. Or, at least, that we paradoxically live, at once, in the best and the worst of times (Wijnberg, 2019)