Horn, Eva, <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/> Translated from the German. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231547956 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018022545 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Disasters in literature.<br/>Future, The, in literature.<br/>Disaster films--History and criticism.<br/>Future, The, in motion pictures.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3352  / .F888 2018