Imagining the Contemporary: No Future?

Nosedive: About Lacie’s maid of honor speech

‘i’ll ping you some anecdotes’

Nosedive creator

Charlie Brooker

Nosedive: release date

2016

Nosedive: What Lacie gets put on by security guard at the airport

‘double damage’

Nosedive: What Lacie is constantly looking for while her phone is dying

‘do you have a K1 adapter?’

Nosedive: Why Naomi asked Lacie to be her maid of honor

‘the authenticity of a vintage bond’

Nosedive: What Naomi says to Lacie after using her

‘it was about numbers for both of us’

Fahrenheit 451: publish date

1953

Fahrenheit 451: Clarisse about her uncle

‘He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days’

Fahrenheit 451: About Mildreds shells

‘There had been no night in the last two years Mildred has not swum in that sea’

Fahrenheit 451: what they call Clarisse at school

‘anti social’

Fahrenheit 451: What Beatty says about fire

‘fire is bright and fire is clean’

Fahrenheit 451: Beatty about society’s culture

‘cram them full of non-combustible data’

Fahrenheit 451: how Montag imagines the people watching him flee

‘faces with grey colourless eyes, grey tongues and grey thoughts’

Authors of ‘Enlightenment as Mass Destruction’

Horkheimer and Adorno (1944)

Horkheimer and Adorno: term for too much technology

‘aesthetic barbarism’

Horkheimer and Adorno: How media creates control

‘to be entertained means to be in agreement’

Horkheimer and Adorno: what mass media creates

‘unity of personality’

Neil postman: Dystopia quote

‘Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us’

Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb: release date

1964

Strangelove: What Kong says when they confirm plan R

‘you’re all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing’s over’

Strangelove: general ripper about war

‘war is too important to be left to politicians’

Strangelove: part of the plan r protocol

‘survival kit contents check’

Strangelove: President to Turgidson and Russian

‘gentlemen you can’t fight in the war room’

Strangelove: President to Dimitri

‘we’re all in this together’

Strangelove: why they made the doomsday machine (after hearing in the NYtimes)

‘we were afraid of a doomsday gap’

Derrida: ‘no apocalypse, not now’ publish date

1984

Derrida: about speed race

‘As we all know, there is not an instant, an atom of our life, a sign of our relation to the world and to being that is not marked today, directly or indirectly, by this speed race’

Derrida: where nuclear weaponry is entrusted

‘entrusted like a dice game’

Derrida: Where literature comes into play

‘one can only talk and write about’

Derrida: description of nuclear war

‘fabulously textual’

Derrida: What nuclear way makes us think about

‘it gives us to think today, retrospectively, the power and the essence of rhetoric’

Derrida: Name for nuclear war

‘naked name’

Author of ‘Is the Nuclear Threat Manageable?’

Leslie H. Gelb

Gelb: About Soviet Union getting nuclear weapons

‘Ever since the Soviet Union joined the nuclear club with the United States in the early 1950s, this logic has created a kind of nuclear peace’

Gelb: About illusion

‘illusion that nuclear wars can be fought’

Documentary compilation of news propaganda about nuclear weaponry

The Atomic Café

Song for a nuclear emergency

‘duck and cover’

exit west author and publish date

Mohsin Hamid (2017)

Exit west: about community

‘everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was’

Exit west: what the doors were thought of as

‘major global crisis’

Exit west: what Nadia says about the nation

‘like a person with multiple personalities, some insisting on union and some on disintegration’

Exit west: woman in Palo Alto

‘we’re all migrants through time’

Exit west: what happens when they migrate

‘for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind’

Exit west: Nadia when she is looking at her phone

‘she would split into two Nadias’

A Seventh Man authors and publish date

John Berger and Jean Mohr (1975)

Berger: his intent with the book

‘grasp more surely the political reality of the world at this moment’

Berger: about the photographs

‘All photographs are a form of transport and an expression of absence’

Berger: how he wants people to see emigration

‘A man’s resolution to emigrate needs to be seen within the context of a world economic system’

Berger: caption on page 46 of a bunch of men filling the page

‘Turkish migrants listening to instructions about their journey to Germany’

Berger: written below a photo of a shoe factory

‘to live he can sell his life’

Berger: about the motivations of migrants

‘A very small number of migrant workers do think politically’

Berger: on the circle diagram

‘imprisonment can cause past and future to lock together against the present’

Berger: one of the last sentences

‘to be homeless is to be nameless’