Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
“Min Hyoung Song’sStrange Futureasks of us—a public formed by the Los Angeles riots of 1992—what is to be done with the will to revolution in light of the injustices mounting since the 1990s? Clearing precious critical space, Song exemplifies our capture by and necessary revisitation of 1992, as neither fatalism nor melancholy, but a careful hermeneutic of the event and its aftermath: a working-through that is a provision for a possible future. This is a thoughtful work for our serious times.”—Lisa Lowe, author ofImmigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics