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31 janvier 2018
- handle: 10670/1.1029yx
- isbn: 9781783743285
- eisbn: 9782821897311
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Western culture apocalypse popular culture media studies alienation zombies crisis of meaning cultural studies SOC022000 Cultural studies JFCASujets proches
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John Vervaeke et al., « 7. Conclusion », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.1029yx
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Fig. 13: Prevalence of words from 1930-2010 in predominantly English books published in any country. Our four horsemen of the apocalypse are, like the zombie itself, mythograms for a crisis in meaning that is decentered from any particular object or symptom that may refer back to it. Just like our present ecological crisis, there is no single anthropogenic or historical cause; rather, it is emergent from the unpredictable combinations of historical and perennial forces that define the interac...