The future as catastrophe : imagining disaster in the modern age /
Horn, Eva,
The future as catastrophe : imagining disaster in the modern age / Eva Horn ; translated by Valentine Pakis. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (viii, 284 pages)
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Last men -- Catastrophe without event: imagining climate disaster -- Survival: the biopolitics of catastrophe -- The future of things: accidents and technical safety -- The paradoxes of prediction -- Conclusion.
The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.
9780231547956
2018022545
Fiction--History and criticism.
Disasters in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Disaster films--History and criticism.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN3352 / .F888 2018
The future as catastrophe : imagining disaster in the modern age / Eva Horn ; translated by Valentine Pakis. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (viii, 284 pages)
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Last men -- Catastrophe without event: imagining climate disaster -- Survival: the biopolitics of catastrophe -- The future of things: accidents and technical safety -- The paradoxes of prediction -- Conclusion.
The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.
9780231547956
2018022545
Fiction--History and criticism.
Disasters in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Disaster films--History and criticism.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN3352 / .F888 2018