The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age

The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age

Author
Eva HornValentine Pakis
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
Year
2018
ISBN
9780231547956
File Type
pdf
File Size
7.7 MiB

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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