At The End Of The World

Hannah Goodwin's debut academic book, Stardust: Cinematic Archives at the End of the World, opens with the poignant question: “What ar

In an age of global warming, there is no background, and thus there is no foreground. It is the end of the world, since worlds depend on backgrounds and

How is the world (un)made? What redemptive possibilities are made pos si ble by apocalypse? When does the end of the world indicate a rebirth and when horrific

Ever SInce the EnlIghtenment, WeStern PhIloSo- phers have shown us a Nature that is grand and universal but also passive and mechanical

4 Oct 2011 Maria Manuel Lisboa is Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the. University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College

Outside the sphere of Hollywood blockbuster productions, The Late Great Planet Earth(1977 an adaptation of a bestselling religious book about Biblical

18 Feb 2025 This is a book about the dreamwork that disabled, feminist, and/or queer- of- color writers do to envision alternate infrastructural

Abstract. (Inter)governmental efforts to deal with the climate crisis are all based on a definition of technology that makes the consolidation of two

Commercial America has resurrected the apocalypse myth as spectacle commodity. Apocalyptic media today reflect current values of the American hegemon in

14 Jul 2021 Amid runaway climate change, expanding deforestation, recurring bleaching events, earth-wide ecological devastation, and the ongoing prospects

Whether depicted in literature, film, or folklore, the idea of a remote cabin at the edge of the earth serves as a powerful symbol of solitude and the boundary

La fine del mondo (The End of the World Ernesto de Martino' s last, unfinished project, may be regarded as the outcome of different, partially contradictory

The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins / Anna. Lowenhaupt Tsing. pages cm. Includes bibliographical references

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5 Sept 2026 This planet is the Earth. An apocalyptic nuclear war has wiped out most of humanity and human civilization. The world of Planet of the Apes is

The idea of the end of the world has an air of banality. Aren't we drift- ing along a neverending flow of scifi books and catastrophe films with whirls

This combination of the trope of apocalypse with haphazard survival can be seen in recent works of science fiction that present the Global South at the very

12 May 2023 The university is all too much a part of the world but I'm grate- ful to Adam Kotsko, Anthony Paul Smith, Dan Barber, Beatrice. Marovich, Eric

How do Jewish, Christian and Islamic perspectives on the end of world compare? What apocalyptic movements and groups have arisen at various times? How do

His villains grew more ambitious, the threat of technology in the wrong hands increased exponentially, and the end of the world grew closer with every novel –