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In his collection of academic essays on monstrosity, Jeffery Jerome Cohen identifies monsters as the “embodiment of culturally specific fears, desires, anxieties, and fantasies.” Because of this, the appearance of monsters is constantly morphing, but what doesn’t change is how to identify them. They are defined in relation to what is human. To redefine monstrosity is to rethink humanity simultaneously.
No Room for Monsters, at first abruptly refutes the question: what monsters reflect our current society?
And rather than directly answering the question above, Kevin Yates responds with a question of his own: what if there are no monsters? No monsters imply no societal fears or anxieties, but there are other implications as well. Perhaps not seeing monsters poses a more significant threat: monsters that are invisible, microscopic, and surfacing from intangible spaces. Without the ability to see them or find a familiarity with their forms, our current monsters could be e…
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In his collection of academic essays on monstrosity, Jeffery Jerome Cohen identifies monsters as the “embodiment of culturally specific fears, desires, anxieties, and fantasies.” Because of this, the appearance of monsters is constantly morphing, but what doesn’t change is how to identify them. They are defined in relation to what is human. To redefine monstrosity is to rethink humanity simultaneously.
No Room for Monsters, at first abruptly refutes the question: what monsters reflect our current society?
And rather than directly answering the question above, Kevin Yates responds with a question of his own: what if there are no monsters? No monsters imply no societal fears or anxieties, but there are other implications as well. Perhaps not seeing monsters poses a more significant threat: monsters that are invisible, microscopic, and surfacing from intangible spaces. Without the ability to see them or find a familiarity with their forms, our current monsters could be e…
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