"Here, we learn it’s time to stop pretending that the world as we know it will be saved or that nothing can be done. Trauma, the compulsion to repeat, and uncertainty have condensed into spectral apparitions of denial and profiteering. Getting unstuck will take a frank, speculative vision attuned to the wild experiments already unfolding in extreme weather and indigenous ontologies, in the unimaginable weirdness of whole populations living on scraps while necromantic tech billionaires obsess over their own immortality, in the charge of sacrificial impulses in power’s sick seductions, or in Afrofuturist literatures, anarchist praxis and the undead labor of zombies."

Kathleen Stewart, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

The University of Texas at Austin