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  1. May 2019
    1. Moylan asserts that, in More’s time, imaginary utopian spaces were projected onto the geographi­cal landscapes being explored by European colonizers, and offered models of perfect state, economic, and social structures.

      Is this something that happens in our modern world today? If so is it being done geographically or even digitally?

    2. Kermode proposes that apocalyptic fictions are a necessity of the human psyche, signaling “our deep need for intelligible ends.

      I find this really line really interesting. I feel like apocalyptic fictions may be the only genre that addresses the question humans ask of "what happens after we die?" In apocalyptic fiction this "end" exists while characters are still living which makes the reality even more terrifying