Beschreibung
The book’s argument revolves around the notion of apocalypse as metaphor, narrating a paradigmatic change in the discourse of postmodern identity. Drawing from science fiction studies, literary and cultural theory as well as popular cinema, it proposes a post-apocalyptic reading of late-capitalist culture.
Autorenportrait
Marcin Mazurek is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures at the University of Silesia (Poland). His research focuses on postmodern theory, culture-technology relationship and visual culture. He is the author of a number of articles in the above-mentioned fields.
Inhalt
Contents: Apocalypse – Technology – Science Fiction – Cultural Studies – Literary Theory – Postmodernism – Rene Descartes – Jean Baudrillard – Guy Debord – Scott Bukatman – Postindustrialism – Popular Cinema – Terminal Culture – Cyberspace – Posthumanism – Textual Spaces and Spatial Textualities – Identity and Its Discontents.
