Forever thinking about the teeth gun in ‘Existenz’.
In his book Straw Dogs, the philosopher John Gray dismantles the idea that humans will be able to use technology to get themselves out of the apocalyptic bind of climate change, arguing that it is impossible for us to sever ourselves from nature and exist in some never-realm of science and devices. “Luckily,” Gray writes, “human beings will never live in a world of their own making.”
The horror of Backrooms is that it is that world: a world of…
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