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Theories of Global Collapse: Closing Down or Opening Up the Futures?

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: In this essay, we first ask what kind of rhetorical styles the theories of global collapse have when talking about futures. We claim that these theories manifest in one of three forms: prospective, prophecy, and science-fiction. We then ask if such theories tend to close down or rather open up the space of possible futures. While some observers have argued that they reduce the trajectories of human development to a unique catastrophic one, we will show that they actually give rise to a number of alternative imaginaries for the post-capitalist and post-oil era.

Source: HAL

Authors: Li Vigni, Fabrizio, Blanchard, Enka, Tasset, Cyprien

Institutions: Centre Internet et Société, Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique Industrielles et Humaines, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Territoires

Language: English

Topic: Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4321746924

FWCI: 5.079

Cites: 15

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10