So Michael Taussig has started a class called "Preëmptive Apocalyptic Thought: The Angel of History Reconsidered in Light of Climate Change, the War on Terror, and Financial Meltdown” at Columbia University...
The report from The New Yorker is making me wonder if we've been infiltrated:
"For the final session, the theme was the cyclical interrelationship of trauma and the apocalypse, and Thurner, after screening the movie, tried to create a theoretical framework for discussion by drawing a series of diagrams, all arrows and blobs, on the blackboard. “So here,” he said, drawing a swooping arc, “we’re coming around to catastrophe. But if we’re preëmptively thinking about it, it’s making it happen faster, right?” He stepped back and looked at the diagrams, puzzled."
link to the story
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