Theory For The World To Come: Speculative Fiction And Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J Wolf-Meyer University Of Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία

Can Social Theories Forge New Paths Into An Uncertain Future? The Future Has Become Increasingly Difficult To Imagine We Might Be Able Predict A Few Events But Imagining How Looming Disasters Will Coincide Is Simultaneously Necessary And Impossible Drawing On Speculative Fiction Theory For World Come Beginning Of Conversation About That Move Beyond Nihilistic Conceptions Capitalism-Caused Anthropocene Toward Generative Bodies Thought Provoke Creative Ways Thinking Ahead Matthew J Wolf-Meyer Draws Such Authors As Kim Stanley Robinson Octavia Butler Engages With Afrofuturism Indigenous Films From 1970S \ 80S Help Think Differently Its Possibilities Forerunners: Ideas First Short Books Thought-In-Process Scholarship Where Intense Analysis Questioning Speculation Take Lead Σελίδες: 116 Διαστάσεις: 12 7X12 7Cm