Who Would You Kill to Save the World?

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Winner of the 2024 Hugh J. Silverman Book PrizeWho Would You Kill to Save the World? examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world-and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society. Claire Colebrook redefines “the world” as affluent Western society and “saving the world” as preventing us from becoming the othered them who are viewed in their suffering. Colebrook further examines how the use of postapocalyptic cinema is a humanist-Western, capitalist, colonizing, white, heteronormative, and individualist-creation and challenges the notion that a world built on foundations of exploitation is worth saving.Colebrook combines postapocalyptic fiction, concern over the global climate crisis, colonialism, and anti-Blackness to explain how contemporary postapocalypse blockbusters circulate ideas of whiteness and the right of the privileged to rebuild the world. Who Would You Kill to Save the World? is a provocative addition to the field of extinction studies and challenges the conceptual frames we use to define ourselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-09-01
Mått:127 x 203 x 13 mm
Vikt:206 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Provocations
Antal sidor:180
Förlag:University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:9781496234988

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Science fiction inom Fantasy, SciFi och skräck

Mer om författaren

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of a number of books, including Deleuze and the Meaning of Life, Gender, and Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska, 2003).

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“A crucial contribution to the field of extinction studies. Colebrook’s book challenges philosophy itself, the whole conceptual discourse that frames what ‘we’ call ‘our place’ and how this framing produced a relegated otherness named the ‘more-than-human-world.’ Her book is an efficient and convincing demonstration of the necessity to question our drive to survival.”-FrÉdÉric Neyrat, author of The Unconstructable Earth: An Ecology of Separation “Unfolding like a Yoshimoto cube, one seemingly stable object-the ‘end of the world’ as allegorically navigated by twenty-first-century cinema-transforms completely under Claire Colebrook’s watch, revealing a wholly new sense of its subject. At stake: the value of humanity, its claim for a right to ongoingness, the nature of attachment, and the fraught conception of the world as such.”-Eugenie Brinkema, author of Life-Destroying Diagrams