TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horn,Eva
AU  - Pakis,Valentine A.
TI  - The future as catastrophe: imagining disaster in the modern age 
SN  - 9780231547956
AV  - PN3352 .F888 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Disasters in literature
KW  - Future, The, in literature
KW  - Disaster films
KW  - Future, The, in motion pictures
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Translated from the German; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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