The apocalyptic blockbusters of 2013 might provide answers as to whether optimistic resolutions will continue or recent events in global politics will signal a return to pessimistic narratives.
The prevalent theories of zombies all in some way address the question of crisis as the new normative condition. The zombie is that which puts the contemporary social order radically in question.
The spectacle of apocalyptic destruction and human failing continues in the parable of ecological collapse. Yet it is typical of the misrepresentation of collapse as it is studied by archaeologists.
In creating states of nature, the postapocalyptic narrative acknowledges that we decide how to live together and the kinds of rules we might choose.
The lack of communities in Japanese apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic genre fiction of the 2000s highlights the insecurities of male youth in contemporary Japanese society.
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