Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden?. The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood‘s MaddAddam Trilogy
In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy investigates this curious form of entertainment by both...
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| description | In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy investigates this curious form of entertainment by both employing the template of the apocalypse itself, and reflecting on its cause and effect at the same time. The novels reveal how worlds and their respective compasses of good and evil are constructed through story-telling, and that the apocalypse is also a story which functions either as a moral structuring device or as an anaesthetic for the estranged subjects of late capitalism. Assuming a meta-perspective, the MaddAddam Trilogy engenders ethical reflections on possible futures, incorporating recent philosophical strands like transhumanism and posthumanism. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-634022022-02-11T15:08:52Z Just Popular Entertainment or Longing for a Posthuman Eden?. The Apocalypse in Margaret Atwood‘s MaddAddam Trilogy Stephanie Bender In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels. Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy investigates this curious form of entertainment by both employing the template of the apocalypse itself, and reflecting on its cause and effect at the same time. The novels reveal how worlds and their respective compasses of good and evil are constructed through story-telling, and that the apocalypse is also a story which functions either as a moral structuring device or as an anaesthetic for the estranged subjects of late capitalism. Assuming a meta-perspective, the MaddAddam Trilogy engenders ethical reflections on possible futures, incorporating recent philosophical strands like transhumanism and posthumanism. 2021-02-12T10:23:04Z 2021-02-12T10:23:04Z 2020-09-03 09:01:39 2019 chapter 46981 2414-0201 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63402 eng Journal for Religion, Film and Media image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.schueren-verlag.de/programm/titel/637-apocalyptic-imaginings.html https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/138 Schüren Verlag Apocalyptic Imaginings 10.25364/05.05:2019.2.2 10.25364/05.05:2019.2.2 5b80c228-3393-4862-a8e9-6c35a63484f1 3d327471-450d-4bce-926a-f106db55e6f3 31-50 open access |
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