Aarthi Vadde

Aarthi Vadde is associate professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe (2016) and co-host of Novel Dialogue, a Public Books partner podcast. She is completing a book on contemporary literature and internet culture called “We the Platform: Contemporary Literature after Web 2.0”.

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We Want Our Catastrophe TV

“We can ask why Squid Game was so popular. But really we should be asking how any show becomes a global success at all.”

Megalopolis Now

It is no surprise that New York City, immodestly known as “the capital of the world,” figures so strongly in the popular imagination of apocalypse: think of the submerged Statue of Liberty in the ecodisaster film The Day After Tomorrow (2004). But New York’s iconicity, as a prime example of what sociologist Saskia Sassen calls […]