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Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price exacted by war and capitalist globalization—particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees—for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future’s promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical in assembly line workers’ laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting in refugees’ writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable in refugees’ inhabitation of history.
Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price exacted by war and capitalist globalization—particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees—for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future’s promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical in assembly line workers’ laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting in refugees’ writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable in refugees’ inhabitation of history.