Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517907808)

Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?

The future has become increasingly difficult to imagine. We might be able to predict a few events, but imagining how looming disasters will coincide is simultaneously necessary and impossible. Drawing on speculative fiction and social theory, Theory for the World to Come is the beginning of a conversation about theories that move beyond nihilistic conceptions of the capitalism-caused Anthropocene and toward generative bodies of thought that provoke creative ways of thinking about the world ahead. Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer draws on such authors as Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia Butler, and engages with afrofuturism, indigenous speculative fiction, and films from the 1970s and '80s to help think differently about the future and its possibilities.

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Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN-10: 1517907802
ISBN-13: 9781517907808
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2019
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d