On Hearing News of Prince Philip’s Death During the Derek Chauvin Trial

Colin Dickey
4 min readApr 10, 2021

Public Displays of Grief and the Politics of Mourning

Graffiti, Brooklyn, NY.

Charlie Stross has a great thread on Prince Philip’s death and what it means to perform compulsory mourning for a stranger, which I recommend everyone checking out. In particular, I really appreciate the way he notes the divide between public discussions…

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Colin Dickey

Failed histories, histories of failure. Author of four books: The Unidentified, Ghostland, Afterlives of the Saints, and Cranioklepty.