The future as catastrophe : imagining disaster in the modern age / Eva Horn ; translated by Valentine Pakis.

By:

Horn, Eva [Author]

Contributor(s):

Pakis, Valentine A []

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231547956

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN3352 .F888 2018

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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.

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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.