


This essay enfolds, fugue-like, three great crises of our time: climate chaos, global militarization, and the mass displacement of people and other species.

How do we write a history of fragments? How do we record a history of forgetting? We have entered an epoch of shocked space and torn time. Where one finds oneself unexpectedly in haunted spaces that create improbable connections. From monstrum, monere: to show, warn, or remindįrom fugere, or fugare, to flee from or chase,Īs in fleeing or chasing monsters or ghosts.įugues appear in contrapuntal music or narratives, interweaving differently braided voices.įugues also appear as emotional states involving amnesia, great forgettings and unburyings,
