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Appositions: The Future in Solarpunk and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Published 2022-11-01Subjects: Get full text
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Climate Migration in Post-Apocalyptic Narratives on the Mainstream Screen
Published 2024-02-01“…Through the perspective of ‘catastrophising thought’, this work undertakes a comparative analysis of five post-apocalyptic films dealing with climate migration: <i>Waterworld, Snowpiercer</i>, <i>Interstellar</i>, <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i> and <i>Mortal Engines</i> in order to identify recurring themes within their dystopian societies. …”
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The Representational Impasse of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
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Post-Apocalyptic Amazement: Aesthetics and Historical Consciousness in the Natural Contract
Published 2021-05-01“…This selective counter-reading of Serres against Benjamin and the films of Ben Rivers ultimately aims at the restitution of a historical-philosophical argument to the status of art in the natural contract or—in a broader sense—in the Anthropocene; more precisely, it also pursues the conception of an aesthetics of amazement in post-apocalyptic narrative time. …”
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Critical Temporalities: Station Eleven and the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Published 2018-11-01“…John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) in the context of the growing body of contemporary post-apocalyptic fictions and what I argue is their critique of the apocalyptic tradition. …”
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Post-apocalyptic Subjectivity and Nature/Culture Duality in Lois Lowry’s The Giver
Published 2023-07-01Subjects: “…Post-apocalyptic Identity…”
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On the Theme of Nostalgia in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Windup Girl
Published 2019-12-01“…This article aims to investigate the role of nostalgia in a post-apocalyptic dystopian setting with a focus on various experiences of nostalgia. …”
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Boundaries of the Human in the Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel: McCarthy and Houellebecq.
Published 2015-11-01“…This paper focuses on the analysis of Houellebecq’s La possibilité d’une île and McCarthy’s The Road with the objective to trace how the representation of the human changes in the contemporary post-apocalyptic novel. The article is based on references to the theories of Agamben, Bauman and Žižek and it develops an idea of literature as return of the repressed theorised by Francesco Orlando.…”
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Faith, Fallout, and the Future: Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction in the Early Postwar Era
Published 2021-07-01“…This article discusses how six post-apocalyptic science fiction novels dealt with this dilemma and presented their visions of the future; more important, it argues that these novels not only reflect the views of many Americans in the early Cold War era, but also provide relevant insights into the role of religion during these complex and controversial years to reframe the belief that an apocalypse was inevitable.…”
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POST-APOCALYPTIC SURROGATE IDEOLOGY: BIOPOLITICS OF CYBERSPACE: IN A HOLLYWOOD HORROR MOVIE
Published 2021-03-01Subjects: Get full text
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Revisited: Memory and Language in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
Published 2013-06-01“…During times of existential unease, post-apocalyptic fiction imagines a depopulated world—a world destroyed by war, pestilence, ecocide, or cosmological judgment. …”
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JUVENILE PHOBIAS OF POST-APOCALYPTIC POWER: THE MORAL DEVOLUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE MILLSTONES OF BIOPOLITICS
Published 2021-06-01“…The use of occupational segregation technologies is becoming the leading biopolitical, communitarian strategy of post-apocalyptic, totalitarian power.…”
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Rex Hobart, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Me: Meditations on the Future of Post-Apocalyptic Honky Tonk
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BOOK REVIEW: Remainders of the American Century: Post- Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline
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Repelling the Invasion of the “Other”: Post-Apocalyptic Alien Shooter Videogames Addressing Contemporary Cultural Attitudes
Published 2009-10-01“… In the current videogame landscape, a great deal of first-person shooters are being made that depict a post-apocalyptic invasion by an “alien” force that must be repelled. …”
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‘MI I PL ET RIUM’: navigating a post-apocalyptic world in Karen Russell’s “The Gondoliers”
Published 2022-06-01“…As the following sets out to show, the story employs the post-apocalyptic scenery of climate-change-induced “New Florida” to hint at current social iniquities and draws on timeless ruminations about individualism and identity also to comment on contemporary discourses about epistemological uncertainty.…”
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Il viaggio di Clitennestra attraverso i secoli: da Micene a Metropolis
Published 2024-03-01Subjects: Get full text
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