Theory for the World to Come
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Theory for the World to Come

Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology

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eBook - ePub

Theory for the World to Come

Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Wyndham’s Rule: Extrapolation, Intensification, Mutation
  6. Detroit Diaries, 1992–1999
  7. White Futures and Visceral Presents: Robocop and P-Funk
  8. The Revolutionary Horizons of Labor and Automation: Blue Collar and Player Piano
  9. California Diaries, 2008–2015
  10. Extrapolating Neoliberalism in the Western Frontier: Octavia Butler’s Parables
  11. New York Diaries, 2015–2018
  12. The Nihilism of Deep Time: Man after Man and After
  13. Mutating Temporalities: Slipstream Christopher Columbus
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Works Cited