- I hear from Elvia Wilk that in The Peripheral, by William Gibson, people refer to the collapse of society as "the jackpot," because somebody's always ready to make a good living from someone else's disaster. In "What's Happening or, How to Name a Disaster," in the essay collection Death by Landscape, Wilk speculates about the terms utopia and dystopia. "Both utopia and dystopia," she writes, "are happening all the time, right now, on different scales and in different places." The powerful, she says, won't want to hear it, and they "will retreat further into their hiding places, never addressing the real story--or stories, for there are many, and all should be told."#
- I hear from Elvia Wilk that in The Peripheral, by William Gibson, people refer to the collapse of society as "the jackpot," because somebody's always ready to make a good living from someone else's disaster. In "What's Happening or, How to Name a Disaster," in the essay collection Death by Landscape, Wilk speculates about the terms utopia and dystopia. "Both utopia and dystopia," she writes, "are happening all the time, right now, on different scales and in different places." The powerful, she says, won't want to hear it, and they "will retreat further into their hiding places, never addressing the real story--or stories, for there are many, and all should be told."#