Street Cop

by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman

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Author(s)

Robert Coover

Publication

New York : Common Era, 2021

Scope

104 Pages, illustrated, 11 cm.

ISBN

9781735075037

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Robert Coover’s detective novelette, Street Cop, is set in a dystopian world of infectious ‘living dead,’ murderous robo-cops, aging street walkers, and walking streets. With drawings by Art Spiegelman, this short tale scrutinizes the arc of the American myth, exploring the working of memory in a digital world, police violence and the future of urban life. STREET COP is provocative and prophetic, asking us to interrogate the line between a condemnable system and a sympathetic individual. Fourth issue in Common Era’s series isolarii, “islands from which to view the world anew”.

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Person as subject

Art Spiegelman

Keywords

drawing (comics) , artificial intelligence , cyborgs , dystopia

Location

Cabinet 7 - 4: Kunstenaars