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Micah Mattix is back with the new Prufrock newsletter. Subscribe and read higher<\/a>. Today’s email links to an essay about trauma being a product of our modern age<\/a>. From that essay, “Furthermore, I will argue that trauma is so widespread precisely because of the ubiquity of traumatogenic technologies in our societies: those of specularity and acceleration, which render us simultaneously unreflective and frenetic. On this analysis, the symptoms deemed evidence of PTSD are in fact only an extreme version of a distinctively modern consciousness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hierarchies in Space<\/strong>: Alexander Hellene<\/a> writes about boring, fantasy bureaucracies in science fiction. “Captain Kirk is the ultimate pulp hero, a man of action and passion who takes his duty to his crew so seriously he is consistently willing to die for them. Does this sound like a guy who could function on the society of the future dreamed up by Gene Rodenberry, et al.? No wonder Kirk wants to be in space all the time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snapping<\/strong> is crazy fast<\/a>, researchers at Georgia Tech have concluded, and that means Thanos could never have done that snappy thing he did. Fact-checkers for the win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melvyn Bragg<\/strong> and guests discuss the great French poem “The Song of Roland<\/a>” on BBC4’s In Our Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World<\/em> Magazine’s<\/strong> next issue is their 2021 books edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Modern Diner on Dexter Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 1978. \u00a0John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Micah Mattix is back with the new Prufrock newsletter. Subscribe and read higher. Today’s email links to an essay about trauma being a product of our modern age. From that essay, “Furthermore, I will argue that trauma is so widespread precisely because of the ubiquity of traumatogenic technologies in our societies: those of specularity and … Continue reading Modern Trauma, The Song of Roland, and Sci-Fi Realities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,7,10],"tags":[3886,3956,3957,2510],"class_list":["post-16050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","category-fiction","category-nonfiction","tag-blogroll","tag-melvyn-bragg","tag-prufrock","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brandywinebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Modern-Diner_RI_1978.jpg?fit=921%2C534&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16054,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions\/16054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}