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Michael Taussig

Right Now the Future is Dark

By Michael Taussig

Right now the future is dark. It is 10 o’clock in the morning but the sun, if there is a sun, is hiding behind leaden clouds. The storm is about to break.

Image of Sander’s baker from Benjamin’s Short History of Photography.

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