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.
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.
Eva Horn is professor of German literature and cultural history at the University of Vienna. She is the author of The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (2013).
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Last Men 2. Catastrophe Without Event: Imagining Climate Disaster 3. Survival: The Biopolitics of Catastrophe 4. The Future of Things: Accidents and Technical Safety 5. The Paradoxes of Prediction Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Last Men 2. Catastrophe Without Event: Imagining Climate Disaster 3. Survival: The Biopolitics of Catastrophe 4. The Future of Things: Accidents and Technical Safety 5. The Paradoxes of Prediction Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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