Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land

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Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century

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Catastrophe Time Dale Pendell Epidemics and pandemics undermine societiesA collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe. Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star gazers, and weather watchers who sought to discover the natural laws of value and exchange as they did the divine order of an unchanging nature. Today, corporate firms hire trend forecasters and scenario planners to play out strategic fictions in virtual worlds.