Nightmares of Normalcy: Our Share of Night and the Affects of Fascism
The elections of 2016 and 2024 had two similar features: both involved me waking up in the middle of the night, believing that everything that was happening was a dream. Derealization was a major feature of my life generally in 2016, and makes its appearances in my life every now and then. But its appearance as we face another round of fascism, and as I read through Mariana Enríquez’s Our Share of Night, the echoes of it in that book, reminded me that it is also deeply entwined with fascism.
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