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PODCAST: Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past,
Present, and Future (1880 – Present)
| Website Date: | 2011-06-16 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-03-16 |
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Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past, Present, and Future (1880 – Present)
March 1, 2011
The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at
Royal Holloway University of London presents:
Civilizational Collapse: Dystopian Imaginings of the Past,
Present, and Future (1880 – Present)
The fear of Civilization collapse is a thread that runs through much of the literature, cinema, and other media of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Whereas the Utopian moment is paradigmatically in the future, the Dystopic moment is paradigmatically in the past. Dark ages, political catastrophes, and apocalyptic ends haunt the modern. For the Western tradition, a key narrative is the ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’, but this is far from being the only catastrophic trope within modern and late-modern cultures. Twentieth-century ends of the world have ranged from alien invasion and self-destruction through to the misuse of technology or spectacular technological failure, extenuated class conflict, or an apathetic decline into barbarity or moral degeneration, alongside religious conflagration, environmental and climatic change. The sheer inventiveness of the manifold ways in which the world may be brought to an end encourages us to understand the apocalyptic urge as a central element within contemporary societies.
This workshop aims to investigate how and why the apocalyptic urge manifests itself in modern societies. We propose a multi-disciplinary approach to challenge methodological conventions and allow a triangulation of the emerging narrative within di ering critical traditions. To this end, we invite contributions from across the arts, humanities and social sciences that address those.
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/03/civilizational-collapse-dystopian-imaginings-of-the-past-present-and-future-1880-%E2%80%93-present/
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