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How to do a close reading Patricia Kaine, http://brugger.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/1/4/2014824/kain.pdf Ursula Heise, Whats the Matter with Dystopia? (2015) Arizona State University Brave New Now (speculative architecture) Art Spiegelman,

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How to do a close reading

Patricia Kaine, http://brugger.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/1/4/2014824/kain.pdf

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Ursula Heise, “What’s the Matter with Dystopia?” (2015)

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Arizona State University

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Brave New Now (speculative architecture)

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Art Spiegelman, Maus (1980-1991)

“commix”

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Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, p. 5

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Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, p. 9

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p. 10

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Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, p. 21

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McCloud on the gutter

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McCloud on closure, p. 67

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p. ¡74 ¡
p. 74

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Geology of new fear

Fear of terrorism Agoraphobia, or political fear Xenophobia Economic Demographic Ecological

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Historical models vs. futures models (financial markets, predictive policing, Google flu, speculative fictions)

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Negative forms of speculation

Finance: derivatives, Ponzi schemes,

subprime mortgages

Precautionary principle: risk

management, emergency preparedness, terror alerts

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William Gibson “The looming apocalypse today is multi-causal. It’s extremely complex and systemic and possibly quite slow. It causes a fundamentally different kind of anxiety.”

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“The mind, exposed to the ordinary course of life, receives upon its surface a myriad impressions…. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms, composing in their sum what we might venture to call life itself... Is it not perhaps the chief task of the novelist to convey this incessantly varying spirit…?”

- Virginia Woolf, “Modern Novels”

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Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Modern Life” (1903)

“The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change

f outer and inner stimuli…. the rapid

crowding of changing images, the sharp discontinuity in the grasp of a single glance, and the unexpectedness of onrushing impressions.”

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Interview with Tom McCarthy

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Marcel Proust, A la recherche (vol. 1)

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Marcel Proust, A la recherche (vol. 6)

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Ford Madox Ford

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