The Future As Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster In The Modern Age

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.

• | Author: Eva Horn
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 18, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0231188625
• | ISBN-13: 9780231188623