In Hassan Blassim’s short story, The Corpse Exhibition, terrorism is no longer reliant on acts of violence but rather their aesthetic presentation and its transmission via media. The display of corpses throughout a city must be achieved purposefully, with subtlety, elegance. These are the rules.
This graphic story features in the Chronic (August 2016), an edition in which we explore ideas around mythscience, science fiction and graphic storytelling. In opposition to the idea of the future as progress – a linear march through time – we propose a sense of time is innately human: “it’s time” when everyone gets there.
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