DIRTY COMPUTER: A PRESCIENT DYSTOPIA

Dani Bethea
12 min readJun 21, 2020

A roadmap to our present.

Dirty Computer (2018)

*WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD!*

THE RACIAL POLITICS OF TIME

Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that ‘the defining feature of being drafted into the Black race [is] the inescapable robbery of time.’ We experience time discrimination he tells us, not just as structural, but as personal: in lost moments of…

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Dani Bethea

Horror Sommelier & Pop Culture Pontificator. Prev EIC: We Are Horror. Published: Studies In the Fantastic + Women of Jenji Kohan + Montréal Monstrum Society .