When worldbuilding impulses merge with real world politics
September 15, 2026
September 15, 2026
ITHACA, New York, Sept. 15 -- Cornell University posted the following news:
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When worldbuilding impulses merge with real world politics
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Images of gallows that went up outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, struck Cornell literature scholar Anindita Banerjee hard, not just for their unforgettable nature, she said, but because she'd seen them before.
"They were a literal enactment of the climax of a dystopian nov . . .
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When worldbuilding impulses merge with real world politics
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Images of gallows that went up outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, struck Cornell literature scholar Anindita Banerjee hard, not just for their unforgettable nature, she said, but because she'd seen them before.
"They were a literal enactment of the climax of a dystopian nov . . .