Superheroes, the Void, and Utopia: Reading Alan Moore’s Watchmen at the End of Days
5554 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde ParkOpen to current undergraduate students at the University of Chicago. Registration is capped at 20. Students who register after capacity has been reached will be put on a waitlist. Copies of Watchmen will be provided to all participants. Who watches the Watchmen? The President of the United States is a septuagenarian nervously forced to confront an increasingly reactive Russia. Our technology has outstripped our power to control or even cope with it. Environmental collapse is right around the corner. Paranoia, dread, and hopelessness hover over all. The year, of course, is 1985, and the American president is…Richard Nixon? And, oh yes, there are...
