Sikh Temple Shooting: Of Martian Rovers and Terror in Holy Spaces
…harnessing our collective intelligence and technological capabilities to explore a truly alien landscape. I am reminded of how both the text and radio broadcast of War of the Worlds occurred at moments of great population and political shifts in the United Kingdom and the United States. Aliens, vampires, and other monsters—these otherworldly beings are often metaphors for our this-worldly ways of organizing difference. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen calls…
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