Accursed futures and redemptive fantasies
It is not uncommon or unusual for many societies around the world to identify the future as a curse. While the unfuturistic accept the curse and scrape along, the futuristic try and lift the curse by engaging in redemptive fantasies. This essay discusses the notions of curse and fantasy in relation...
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