| A Sense of Apocalypse: Technology, Textuality, Identity Contributor(s): Kalaga, Wojciech (Other), Mazurek, Marcin (Author) |
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ISBN: 363164812X ISBN-13: 9783631648124 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $50.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2013050537 |
| Series: Literary and Cultural Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.75 lbs) 138 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reaching into the depths of the collective unconscious, A Sense of Apocalypse explores and re-interprets one of the West's primordial fears, namely that of the apocalyptic closure of both cultural praxis and individual experience. Yet, in contrast to popular connotations of the term, apocalypse is viewed here in terms of a transitional narrative locating the subject at the intersection of technological determinism, pop-cultural imagination, postmodern urbanism and digital textuality. All these form the components of a new post-apocalyptic landscape, which not only produces a new identity informed by dissolving post-Enlightenment paradigms, but also conjures up hints at a large number of existential possibilities triggered by late-capitalist technologies and their cultural consequences. |