Reconfiguring the Present: A 2020 List of Other Futures
Film: Nomadland (2020) Chloé Zhao A movie about American poverty? Yes, but also a film about the complex and varied ideas of freedom that come with living in this humongous, politically and economically disparate country. What is monetary, individual and emotional liberation in an American west pocked with Amazon packaging plants? Giant corporations engender a giant gig economy, not stability or growth. Frances McDormand brilliantly plays the resilient protagonist, Fern. Luis Camnitzer, Book: One Number Is Worth One Word (2020) Luis Camnitzer Few write with such succinct eloquence and in...