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Pleasures of Pessimism
ISBN-13:
9780647530764
Veröffentl:
2020
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Natasha Moore
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Re:CONSIDERING invites you to look at what's familiar from an unfamiliar angle. To consider how we consider things - and how to do it better.Pandemic, supervolcano, late capitalism, transhumanism, populism, cancel culture, the post-antibiotic age, the gig economy, the surveillance state, the cascading effects of climate change ...Whatever the specifics, do you ever feel like things are going off the rails - or are just about to?If you've read the news, watched a zombie movie, or gotten into an argument on Twitter lately, the answer is probably yes.And you're not alone.What makes us such apocaholics?What's so appealing about Armageddon? What are the pleasures - and also the perils of our pessimism?
Re:CONSIDERING invites you to look at what's familiar from an unfamiliar angle. To consider how we consider things - and how to do it better.Pandemic, supervolcano, late capitalism, transhumanism, populism, cancel culture, the post-antibiotic age, the gig economy, the surveillance state, the cascading effects of climate change ...Whatever the specifics, do you ever feel like things are going off the rails - or are just about to?If you've read the news, watched a zombie movie, or gotten into an argument on Twitter lately, the answer is probably yes.And you're not alone.What makes us such apocaholics?What's so appealing about Armageddon? What are the pleasures - and also the perils of our pessimism?