In his 2012 review of the movie The Avengers, film critic of The Boston Globe, Tom Russo noted: The word “universe” is standard parlance in the comic book industry.

Written in collaboration with Eddie Blake. This essay was published as part of “Dixit Algorizmi – The Garden of Knowledge” the catalog of the Pavilion of the Republic of Uzbekistan at The Venice Biennale 2022.

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Update September 2022 – This was published in December 2021, just months prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and only weeks before the initial build-up of troops.