Eddie Yuen
Autor(a) de Catastrophism: the Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
Obras por Eddie Yuen
Catastrophism: the Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth (2012) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
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- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 110
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- #176,729
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- 3.2
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- 2
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- 16
Sadly, the weakest chapter is the one on apocalyptic cultural production. It is narrowly focused on zombies (a fun and fruitful topic however) – but apocalyptic symbols and narratives are a much broader and deeper part of our cultural inheritance, and they resonate far more on a mythic level of understanding than on an historical or political one. Left rationalism would like to see myth defanged by reducing it to history (the chapter’s author quotes Walter Benjamin to that effect) but mythic consciousness is irreducible to historical consciousness because the conception of time is fundamentally different. The left idea that class-conscious rationalism alone is sufficient to nullify deep-seated supra-rational (joyful, transcendental, as well as terrible) elements of human experience is a weakness of much theory, and needs to be reconsidered.
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