makes work about history, how it haunts the present, and how it failed the future. Invariably, he returns to the human dilemma of being too obtuse and shortsighted to solve the problems bred by being too smart for our own good—instances of ingenuity and haplessness working in lockstep harmony. He uses the frameworks of weird fiction, gothic marxism, parapolitics, and geoscience as tools for pointing to the unthinkable undersides of spectacular society. Alex uses a method of “artistic prospecting” that deviates from colonial models by turning the ethnographic focus towards mechanisms of power by blending the terms of reality and fiction to draw out traces of intelligibility from forces resistant to sight and scrutiny.