Ana Paula Maia: On Earth As It Is Beneath Edward W. Said society should explore ways to

society should explore ways to reverse its impact

its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and '70s

which imagines and inhabits the immanent ethical possibilities of a terminal present

London 2015

Ana Paula Maia: On Earth As It Is Beneath Edward W. Said society should explore ways toCharco Press, 2025, softcover, 112 pages, 13. 3 x 19. 6 cm On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prisons waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full moon night, the inmates are