Ian Thal:
6 Mar. 2020
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In “Museum 2040” Calarco explores just one possible way the divides in American society could rupture in a speculative history that imagines developments in both American politics and pop-culture over the next twenty years while reminding us just how bizarre the events of the last twenty years have been. The immersive nature of the event makes us consider that we do not always understand the significance of present as we live through it, but also how significance is subject to debate or irreconcilable differences. The recent past can be an open wound — and so is the future. ”