Hopeful Extinctions? Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene

Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological progress has been fuelled by decades of advances in co...

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Main Author: Sy Taffel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2018-10-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2018102163