"With this book, Madina Tlostanova invites us to refuture our worlds, by disinterring ourselves from the scorched soil of the personal and planetary crises currently occupying the wake of western/colonial/Eurocentric hegemony. To rupture paralytic entanglements enabled by the hollow silence and cultural stagnation that underwrite our incapacities to re-imagine beyond straightjackets of fear, privilege, disavowal and hatred."
Alice Feldman, University College Dublin, Coordinator of the Masters` Program "Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies"
"Madina Tlostanova method is to inter-weave sharp critical argument with richly imagined speculative fictions. These stunning fables evoke past and future disasters with pathos and humour: a forgotten flu epidemic, failed extractivism in the Caucasus told through several generations; the last inhabitant of a leper colony; a future of socially distanced isolation as the permanent condition of technologically enhanced elites sealed off from the abandoned majority."
Anne-Marie Willis, Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania
"Blowing up the Western(ized) categories of critical and epistemological thinking inborn to Modernity/Coloniality, Tlostanova endeavors to reconfigure those issues by unexpectedly knitting nonfiction and fiction, essays and speculative narratives, in other words, by beautifully juxtaposing thinking and feeling, scientific truth and poetic truth. Finally, inviting the reader to yield to the unsettling way of getting knowledge by thinking with art, Tlostanova also invites us to learn to live unsettlement as a potentially fulfilling condition and, paradoxically, a provisional exit from our space and time out of joint."
Luigi Cazzato, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
