The phantasmagoric quality of what is both threatening and unexplained is a mighty, sharp-fanged beast. In Apparitions, Christina Lopez observes the parallels between the narrative mechanisms in horror and science fiction relying on allusion (rather than explicitness) and the symptoms of technological paranoia. That is, the overlap between the disorienting effects of technological abstraction and a collective sense of distrust in the opaque engines (and related media infrastructure) buttressing the circulation and transformation of images. An invisible yet ubiquitous entity that is, like Dickens’ ghost, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible, save one outstretched hand.
Excerpt written by Abril Cisneros.
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