The Quietus | Features | Tome On The Range | Infinite Continuous Nows: The Liminal Zones Of Izumi Suzuki
Calum Barnes , April 24th, 2021 09:21 New translations of the pathbreaking SF stories of Izumi Suzuki feel like transmissions from a lost future that ended long ago, finds Calum Barnes Photo credit: Nobuyoshi Araki According to Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, the future ended in 1977. “This was the year when the punk movement exploded, whose cry – ‘No Future’ – was a self-fulfilled prophecy that slowly enveloped the world,” he argues in his 2011 book, After the Future, sketching a knotty complex of social, cultural, and economic trends that all reached their terminus that year. The oil ...