In China Miéville’s novel The City & the City, two cities occupy the same physical space, but the citizens are trained from childhood to “unsee” the other city. They walk past people, buildings, and traffic that are literally right in front of them yet behave as though they are not there. Only a few are allowed to acknowledge both cities at once, and the rest live as if half of reality does not exist (China Miéville, The City & the City [New York: Del Rey, 2009]). In a similar way, ma...
Seeing The Unseen
