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"How to Think about Catastrophe argues that "only by making good use of [its ethical] faculty can humanity hope to curb its power over things and over itself--a power that is excessive and, above all, destructive.""--

Catastrophical, The --- Catastrophical, The.

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Comment vivre et penser dans nos sociétés du risque ? Comment conjurer le tragique de l'existence ? Comment, au milieu des décombres, surmonter tristesse, fatalisme et désespoir ? Questions immémoriales, plus que jamais d'actualité. Le Japon a une réponse, inspirée du bouddhisme. L'Occident en a une autre, ancrée dans sa tradition judéo-chrétienne, et en plein renouveau : la catastrophe comme message symbolique et initiation à l'Apocalypse. Encore faut-il, pour décoder le message, réapprendre un vieux métier d'avenir : le prophétisme. D'où ce petit manuel d'apprentissage.

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Le retoriche giornalistiche e gli immaginari mediali ci parlano di un mondo in declino, il cui orizzonte si fa sempre più difficile da scorgere, tormentato da innumerevoli paure e messo in discussione da catastrofi imminenti. Crisi politiche, disastri ecologici, complotti globali, scenari da fine del mondo. Ma qual è il confine tra pericoli attuali o futuri, narrazioni mediali e immaginario socioculturale? Cosa rende il catastrofismo così radicato nell’immaginario collettivo, sin dai tempi antichi? Come si propaga nella società contemporanea e attraverso i media? Il volume rende conto di questo complesso intreccio simbolico e culturale, ponendo le basi per leggere analiticamente i discorsi contemporanei della e sulla catastrofe: mappandone le strutture e i temi comuni, ricordando le teorie matematico–semiotiche che lo hanno utilizzato, indagando le dinamiche culturali e il concretizzarsi della catastrofe nelle immagini, e indagando le narrazioni e le esperienze percepite durante e in seguito a tali eventi, i resti culturali e concreti della loro influenza nella nostra cultura.

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Sasha Lilley is a writer and radio broadcaster and the author of Capital and Its Discontents. She lives in Oakland, California. David McNally is a professor of political science at York University in Toronto. He is the author of Another World and Global Slump. He lives in Toronto. Eddie Yuen teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and is the author of Confronting Capitalism. He lives in San Francisco. James Davis is a documentary filmmaker. He lives in San Francisco. Doug Henwood

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Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms, historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with catastrophes and crises. This book presents a series of articles investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire's eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.

Catastrophical, The, in motion pictures. --- Catastrophical, The, in literature. --- Catastrophical, The, in art. --- Motion pictures --- Art. --- Catastrophes. --- Crises. --- Film. --- Literature. --- Trauma.