The Future as Catastrophe : : Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age / / Eva Horn.
Why do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalypse that have haunted us for decades, we are dazzled now by an array of possible catastrophe scenarios: climate change, financial crises, environmental disasters, technological meltdowns-perennial subjec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 44 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- 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