2047. Albania has turned into a dictatorship and sends a killing robot to Prishtinopolis to eliminate liberal journalists and hackers. Like in “The Arbiter. A serialized ethno-cyber-punk novel” (2021), Artrit Bytyçi in his new comic book “Arnautistan Noir” conceives Albanian identities through alternative realities: How would today’s Prizren look like if it still were under Ottoman rule, and what language would people speak?

Artrit Bytyçi, storylab, Prishtina, in discussion with Dr. Belfjore Qose, University Tirana, and Christian Voss, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin