However, more recently photography has also been preoccupied with a kind of pre-mortem state as photographers become increasingly interested in the process whereby the body decays and transforms until it ceases to exist.

Coordinate term: Valium

Pirandello’s To Find Oneself is a largely discursive rehash of the dramatist’s everlasting theme that we have no stable identity—the illustration in this case is effected in the person of a star actress—and that to find oneself one must create a superself through art.

If Boba Fett serves as a lightning rod for anything more significant than admiration of his arresting costume and four gritty lines of dialogue, perhaps it is as the embodiment of our third-wave, superpowerless anxiety, which long predates the events of September 11, 2001.