![]() ![]() The political theorist Jodi Dean described Barker’s illustrations as encapsulating the nebulous kind of paranoia that permeated the US cultural landscape after the Cold War. ![]() Barker grouped these panels under a loose narrative about the “Schwa Corporation,” a kind of ET Enron which systematically intervenes in human affairs for unclear but likely nefarious purposes. Settings ranged from the familiar (grids of cubicles, suburban neighborhoods, city streets packed with billboards) to the alien (extraterrestrial deserts, abstract geometric planes) with a seamless continuity. The subjects of these panels populated a variety of daunting, visually distorted landscapes pockmarked by flying saucers and interdimensional portals. In the 1990s, underground cartoonist William Barker published a series of black-and-white, single-panel stick figure drawings. ![]() The universe is unbounded in time and space. The universe has a beginning and an end in time and space.ī. ![]()
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