The Eternal Night of Consumer Consciousness: The Metaphorical Embodiment of Darkness in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Inbar Kaminsky

“…The essay strives to conceptualize the consumer consciousness of the father and the son in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by maintaining that post-apocalyptic America has created a new socio-economic status of the non-consumer. …”
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Emergent Critical Strategies Against the Nation- Trap: The Digitization of Literary Apocalyptic Affects and Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu by Matthew Cormier

“…In particular, this article takes up Larissa Lai’s dynamic, post-apocalyptic novel, The Tiger Flu, as a case study to examine these ideas by using digital tools. …”
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La satire du zombie : Z Nation ou l’effondrement comme critique de nos sociétés capitalistes by Alice Ray

“…Post-apocalyptic zombie tales have invaded literature and cinema since the end of the 1960s and the classical films by George A. …”
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The Dialectics of Mobility: Capitalism and Apocalypse in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Simon Schleusener

“…In the post-apocalyptic setting of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road (2006), a father and his son “push down the road a battered shopping cart, containing their bare provisions, on a thoroughly consumed earth” (Seltzer 189). …”
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En quête d’une épopée vidéoludique by Kim Lefebvre

“…If a long narrative that decenters the civilizational crises of its time to enable the society that enunciates it to “think them without concept” is epic (Goyet, 2006), this article aims to question the specificities of a videogame variation of the universal and transcultural epic by determining the way in which post-apocalyptic AAA adventure video games would operate an “epic process” (Goyet, 2006) on our present.…”
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Antigone transgenica. Nuove indagini critiche tra genere distopico e mitologia by Chiara Protani

“…In the 20th century, it is common to find some rewritings of classical myths set in post-apocalyptic scenarios. The aim of this paper is to propose an innovative research field that combine the study of dystopian literature and myth criticism. …”
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Catastrophe and its Aftermath in Cormac McCarthy‟s The Road and Don DeLillo‟s White Noise by Irina Elena GRIGORE

“…The two novels evoke a world dominated by violence, catastrophe, on its way to the final, the post-apocalyptic white noise and the human resistance over death as contemporary aspects of the 21st century.…”
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Moxhelis: its Musical Aesthetics Between the Industrial and the Post-Industrial by Damián Pérez Mezzadra

“…The aesthetics of the group's performances consisted on a juxtaposition of fragmentary images in which post-industrial, circus, post-avant-garde, retro-futuristic and post-apocalyptic elements were intertwined. The Moxhelian aesthetics can be addressed from different perspectives, whether focusing on its sound, its visuals or on the bodily dimension. …”
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Se il Mare del Nord arriva e l’Olanda scompare. L’ecofiction di Eva Meijer by Marco Prandoni

“…In the uchronic novel with dystopian/(post)apocalyptic features Zee Nu (Sea Now) by Dutch philosopher Eva Meijer (2022) the Netherlands is submerged by an exceptional high tide that does not recede. …”
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RE-GEN by Cheow, Zoey Yi Ting, Char, Jeremin Junhuang

“…RE-GEN is a 3rd-person open-world RPG game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic Hong Kong city. You will play as Ren, the half android protagonist who awakens to explore both worlds, to uncover secrets about what happened to the seemingly extinct human civilization. …”
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Mu Ji. by Oon, Charmaine Chian Wei., Loo, Jeannie Yuan Rong., Goh, Jonathan Qi Di., Lee, Shuxian., Zheng, Maxine Mattina Miaoxing.

“…The film seeks to provide basic understanding on Singaporeanʼs relationship to poultry farming and responsible consumption conjuring up post apocalyptic anxieties of food. The film also represents the culture of nostalgia as enacted through consumption of “historical foods” (Kaka, and Chickadee chicken snacks) and popular ditties.…”
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Cold steam by Yang, Sishuo

“…Cold Steam is a visual effects (VFX) short film produced by Nicholas Chia, Yeo Shiyun, Goh Peng Fong, and myself. Based in a post-apocalyptic world, Cold Steam is the story of a girl’s struggle for water in a world infested by mysterious creatures. …”
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Cold steam by Yeo, Shiyun

“…Cold Steam is a visual effects (VFX) short film produced by Nicholas Chia, Yang Si Shuo, Goh Peng Fong, and myself. Based in a post-apocalyptic world, Cold Steam is the story of a girl’s struggle for water in a world infested by mysterious creatures. …”
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New Wave Science Fiction and the Exhaustion of the Utopian/Dystopian Dialectic by Janez Steble

“…The genre literature of the period chiefly expressed the dissolutions of the universe, society, and identity through its formal literary devices and subject-matter, thus making it easy to arrive at the conclusion that the many SF works of J. G. Ballard’s post-apocalyptic narratives, for example, exhausted and bankrupted the utopian/dystopian dialectic. …”
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Blackbeard and the Post-Anthropocene Humanoids. Tracing the Post/Transhuman in Margaret Atwood's <em>MaddAddam</em> Trilogy by Laura Giovannelli

“…The analysis takes its cue from the post-apocalyptic setting of  Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, with a final focus on the last book in the series. …”
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Catastrophilia: A case study of the eco-apocalyptic Japan Sinks’ mediascape by Veronica De Pieri

“…The global entertainment world has recently seen an increase in post-apocalyptic products, clearly reflecting a public demand for catastrophe-related narratives. …”
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Rêver ou penser l’Anthropocène ? Usages de la ruine dans la non-fiction de l’extrême contemporain by Marine Aubry-Morici

“…This “catachronism” (Srinivas Aravamudan, 2013) chosen by some contemporary artists and writers prevents us from understanding global warming, because it aestheticizes the Anthropocene as a mesmerizing post-apocalyptic time. What are the alternative uses of contemporary ruins for artists and writers who have decided to distance themselves from any melancholic fascination? …”
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Književnost očima Druge –Što... ili tko je monstrum kis Tatjane Tolstoj? by Maja Pandžić

“…In creating the post-apocalyptic society, Tolstaya depicts traditional gender roles, chooses a male protagonist and inserts numerous citations from literary works written exclusively by male authors. …”
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Alive = 生 by Lim, Melanie Hui En, Ong, Taylor Yin Meng, Ong, Philip Chong Li, Liu, Ashley Yan Tong

“…Set in a post-apocalyptic world where fossil fuels have run out, humans must run on treadmills to generate electricity and hit output targets. …”
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Real and metaphorical hunger: the case of The Divergent Trilogy by Cristina Paravano

“…The trilogy is set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, whose population is divided into five allegorical factions, according to a number of personal and social characteristics. …”
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