The “time of monsters,” according to philosopher Antonio Gramsci, comes when the old world is dying and the new one “struggles to be born.” His quote seemed to get a lot of play on social media in 2020, as we all watched endless death play out via smartphone screen. The old way of doing things was very clearly over, but the future felt impossible to conceptualize. But this quote also resurfaced in the fall of 2016 during a contentious U.S. election (maybe you remember which one). It seems... Read this story
