Po co nam postapokalipsy? Kultura postapokaliptyczna na początku XXI wieku z perspektywy kultur Zachodu
What Is Post-Apocalypse Created for? The Post-Apocalyptic Culture at the Beginning of the 21st Century from the Perspective of Western Cultures

Summary/Abstract: In the article I wonder about the reasons for the growing popularity of the postapocalypticworks in the pop culture of the early 21st century. The world after the collapseof the Western civilization is created in various literary, film and photographic forms, theexamples of which I present in my study. The alternative post-apocalyptic reality is the postindustrialreality, archaized and non-anthropocentric. The technological regress presented inthe works is based on imaginings of the end and is analogous to the fall of humanity amongthose people who survived after the “end” or were born afterwards. In the post-apocalypticworks of the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries it can be noticed that the authors of the visionof world “after to end” abandoned an extremely negative tone.

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