AuthorJesus Emmanuel Villafuerte

Isang manunulat at mananaliksik mula sa Maynila. Nagtuturo siya bilang part-time instructor sa Polytechnic Univeristy of the Philippines.

The Future Is Dead, Do Not Consume Its Corpse

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“While the 20th century was seized by a recombinatorial delirium, which made it feel as if newness was infinitely available, the 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. It doesn’t feel like the future. Or, alternatively, it doesn’t feel as if the 21st century has started yet. We remain trapped in the 20th century, just as Sapphire and Steel were incarcerated in...