“Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped” – When the World ends in a Mall: Dawn of the Dead, WALL-E, The Wild Blue Yonder

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. THINKING CATASTROPHES AND CRISES
5. The Cultural Analysis of Disaster 15
6. Catastrophic Turns – From the Literary History of the Catastrophic 33
7. Making Crises and Catastrophes – How Metaphors and Narratives shape their Cultural Life 59
8. The Metaphysics of Catastrophe – Voltaire’s Candide 89
9. Adorno’s Idea of Art as the Revelation of a Permanent and Universal Catastrophe 103
10. II. WITNESSING AND REMEMBERING CATASTROPHES AND CRISES
11. Memory Crisis – Remembering and Forgetting in Post-genocide Rwanda 115
12. Catastrophe, Documentary and the Limits of Cinematic Representation 125
13. The Excess of Kali Yuga – Repetition, Remembrance and Longing 137
14. The Visual Literacy of Disaster in Ernst Jünger’s Photo Books 147
15. Dreaming the American Nightmare – The Cultural Life of 9/11 177
16. III. IMAGINING CATASTROPHES AND CRISES
17. Macbeth – The Catastrophe of Regicide and the Crisis of Imagination 193
18. “The Dead shall inherit the Dead” – After Life and beyond Catastrophe in Mark Strand’s Post-Apocalyptic Poetry 203
19. September 11 and the Disruption of Singularity 213
20. Resounding Catastrophe – Auditory Perspectives on 9/11 223
21. The Frailty of Everything – Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Modern Disaster Discourse 233
22. IV. DESIRING AND CONSUMING CATASTROPHES AND CRISES
23. The Aesthetics of Catastrophe – Edmund Burke on Sympathy 251
24. Kunst macht frei – Misrepresenting the Holocaust in Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Hell 263
25. The New Flesh – A Variation on David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Pierre Klossowski’s La monnaie vivante 273
26. “Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped” – When the World ends in a Mall: Dawn of the Dead, WALL-E, The Wild Blue Yonder 283
27. Freak Ecology – An Introduction to the Fictional History of Natural Disaster 295
28. List of Contributors 309
29. Index 311