ISBN:
0585476136
,
9780585476131
,
0791453960
,
9780791453964
,
0791453952
,
9780791453957
,
9780791488492
,
0791488497
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 204 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in postmodern culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pettman, Dominic After the orgy
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Civilization, Modern 1950-
;
Millénarisme
;
Civilisation 1950-
;
Millennialism
;
Civilization, Modern 1950-
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Millennialism
;
Cultuurfilosofie
;
Films
;
Einde der tijden
;
Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
Applying Jean Baudrillard's question "What are you doing after the orgy?" to the postmillennial climate that informs our contemporary cultural moment, this book argues that the imagination of apocalyptic endings has been an obsessive theme in post-Enlightenment culture. Dominic Pettman identifies and examines the dynamic tensions of various apocalyptic discourses, from the fin-de-siecle decadents of the 1890s to the fin-demillennium cyberpunks of the 1990s, in order to highlight the complex constellation of exhaustion, anticipation, panic, and ecstasy in contemporary culture
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note:Introduction: After the Orgy --1.Panic Merchants: Prophecy and the Satyr --Goat in the Machine --2.Rapture of Rupture --Sade and the Death of God --Avoiding the Void --Eroticism and the Thanatic Asymptote --Nietzsche's Dionysus --Nihilism and the Thirst for Annihilation --3.Virtual Apocalypse --Virilio's Accident --Bacchanical Man and Ballard's Crash --Technol-orgy: From Autogeddon to Infocalypse --Snow Crash and Scopophilia --Cyborgies in the Dionysian Landscape --Carmageddon --4.Decaying Forward: Satiety and Society --De-fragging the Self --Technologies of the Flesh --5.Cosmic Architects --Immaculate Contraception --Sexless Hydrogen: The Frisson of Fission --Dionysus in '69 --Politics of Play --6.Playing at Catastrophe --Pret-a-Mort: Necrophilia and Death Fashion --Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Joachite Structure of Baudrillard's Philosophy --"A Biocybernetic Self-Fulfilling Prophecy World Orgy I": or Surviving the Necropolis --Temporary Autonomous Zones and the Archaic Revival --Civilization and Its Discotheques --After the Orgy (But Before the Test Results) --Conclusion: The Revelation Will not be Televised.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index. - Description based on print version record
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