To Live with the Monsters

In this world that lost its utopias and their projection of perfect and (im)possible worlds into the space-time continuum, dystopian narratives are the representations and the key to understand contemporary time and its fears. In this age devoid of a world order, political directions and, after 198...

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Autore principale: Ruocco, Giovanni
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 2019
Accesso online:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Riassunto:In this world that lost its utopias and their projection of perfect and (im)possible worlds into the space-time continuum, dystopian narratives are the representations and the key to understand contemporary time and its fears. In this age devoid of a world order, political directions and, after 1989, temporal perspective towards the future, natural and human catastrophes, “internal” and “external” monsters, as well as the thinning of the borders between natural and artificial besiege our ima...