It is possible to detect a sense of foreboding in the vibrant, engaging papers assembled here, an ominous sense of dread as the birds fly off and calamity seems imminent. First written for a conference in the spring of 2017, they convey a mood one might term post-millennial, a consciousness of endings and uncertainties – not merely as regards the condition of the late liberal world, or the queasy proliferation of signs reminiscent of fascisms past – almost the same, if not quite.