Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology

• Main Author: Wolf-Meyer, Matthew J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Press 2019
• Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
• Subjects: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Philosophy; Popular culture; Language & Literature; Cultural Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 the...