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The future as catastrophe : imagining disaster in the modern age / Eva Horn ; translated by Valentine Pakis.

LIBRA PN3352.D57 H6713 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Horn, Eva, author.
Contributor:
Pakis, Valentine A., translator.
Standardized Title:
Zukunft als Katastrophe. English
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Fiction--History and criticism.
Fiction.
Disasters in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
Disaster films--History and criticism.
Disaster films.
Future, The, in motion pictures.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
viii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Contents:
Introduction
Last men
Catastrophe without event: imagining climate disaster
Survival: the biopolitics of catastrophe
The future of things: accidents and technical safety
The paradoxes of prediction
Conclusion.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Horn, Eva author. Future as catastrophe
ISBN:
9780231188623
0231188625
9780231188630
0231188633
OCLC:
1035443649

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