Po co nam postapokalipsy? Kultura postapokaliptyczna na początku XXI wieku z perspektywy kultur Zachodu

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Po co nam postapokalipsy? Kultura postapokaliptyczna na początku XXI wieku z perspektywy kultur Zachodu

Journal Title: Przegląd Humanistyczny - Year 2017, Vol 61, Issue 1

Abstract

In the article I wonder about the reasons for the growing popularity of the postapocalyptic works in the pop culture of the early 21st century. The world after the collapse of the Western civilization is created in various literary, film and photographic forms, the examples of which I present in my study. The alternative post-apocalyptic reality is the postindustrial reality, archaized and non-anthropocentric. The technological regress presented in the works is based on imaginings of the end and is analogous to the fall of humanity among those people who survived after the “end” or were born afterwards. In the post-apocalyptic works of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries it can be noticed that the authors of the vision of world “after to end” abandoned an extremely negative tone.<br/><br/>

Authors and Affiliations

Karolina Wierel

Keywords

post-apocalypse post-apocalyptic culture catastrophe nuclear war atomic bomb books reading post-humanism new humanities affirmative humanities ecology ecocriticism

EP ID EP188956
DOI 10.5604/01.3001.0009.9222
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