The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age

Author/Contributor(s):	Horn, Eva
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	09/18/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Future as Catastrophe offers a novel critique of the fascination with disaster. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its historical roots to the contemporary popularity of disaster fiction and end-of-the-world blockbusters, Eva Horn argues that apocalypse always haunts the modern idea of a future that can be anticipated and planned.