Postapokaliptyka. Rekonesans badawczy
Post-Apocalypse: The State of Research

Summary/Abstract: Franczak surveys the vast cultural phenomenon called the post-apocalypse. The selection of texts and practices, based on formal criteria, is treated from various perspectives: as a late-modern refiguration of the apocalyptic imaginary, as an epochal adaptation of the main themes of catastrophism, as a substitute expression of traumatic historical experiences, and as a unique philosophical and anthropological laboratory. Franczak concludes by suggesting ways to identify the collective phantasms that shape the postapocalypse and to consider its ambivalent political nature.

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