From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe

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Agamben, Giorgio, 66, 150, 191, 196; on the figure of the Muselmann, 150–51; Homo sacer, 67 Animatrix: The Second Renaissance (film), 132, 136 apocalypse, 21, 42; and historical change, 13, 123–24; and the impossibility of retaliatory violence, 41; the katechon, 15; in Miracleman : Olympus (Moore), 10–15, 20; in Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, 98, 100, 109–10, 113–17, 119–22; in Oryx and Crake (Atwood), 119–20; in Princess Mononoke (film), 94; in Save the Green Planet (film), 85–86, 88– 89, 91–92; in The Second Renaissance (film), 133–36; in V for Vendetta (Moore), 156–59, 162– 65, 173; in Watchmen (Moore), 30, 38, 60, 64 Arendt, Hannah, 36, 188 Aristotle, 133, 195 Atkinson, Doug, 189 Atwood, Margaret, 119–20, 123, 193 avant-garde: Soviet, 16. See also Groys, Boris Badiou, Alain, 58, 75, 125, 154, 189, 191 Bakunin, Mikhail, 15 Barthes, Roland, 137 Battle of Algiers, The (film), 171, 198 Bauman, Zygmunt, 152, 159, 197 beautiful soul, 6, 141. See also Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Žižek, Slavoj Begin, Menachem, 169 Benjamin, Walter, 74 Berman, Morris, 147, 196 Bernstein, Michael André, 176, 198, 199; on sideshadowing, 179 Bloch, Ernst, 2, 3, 6, 186 Borgia, Cesare, 37, 38 Brave New World (Huxley), 120 Bukharin, Nikolai, 142 Butler, Judith, 138, 195 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (film), 37 Campbell, Eddie, 189 Camus, Albert, 121, 193 capitalism, 7, 9, 67, 119, 123, 125, 141, 181; and apocalypse, 123–24; liberal , 5, 18, 75, 124, 126, 127, 147, 148; neoliberal, 6, 18–19, 125. See also globalization; neoliberalism 201 INDEX Casarino, Cesare, 197 Castle in the Sky (film), 122. See also Miyazaki, Hayao Charlton Comics, 28 Chesterton, G. K., 21, 187 Cioran, E. M., 40, 188 Clockwork Orange, A (film), 80 Cold War, 12, 73, 98; alternate history of, 29 communism, 73, 124–25, 127, 172; anarcho-communism, 7; expansionism and, 8; figure of the communist militant, 141–42; Soviet communism, 6, 7, 18, 25 concentration camps, 67–68, 80, 150–51, 153, 156, 162, 171, 174, 181, 197 Concept of the Political, The (Schmitt), 5, 81 Critchley, Simon, 186 Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan, 3, 185, 192 Dean, Jodi, 170, 198 demiurge, 15–20, 48; demiurgy, 17, 19, 22, 24, 44, 48 democracy, 119, 127, 143, 144, 146– 47, 152, 154, 158, 174; anarchistic voluntarism, 9; disintegration of, 181; global, 71; liberal democracy, 8, 12, 15, 18, 74, 124–25, 143, 145, 148; practice of self-critique in, 9, 145; and tragedy, 137, 139–40 Derrida, Jacques, 9, 74, 144–45, 186, 191, 192, 196; on justice as messianic promise, 145 Desai, Meghnad, 125, 194 Dispossessed, The (Le Guin), 7–8; state of emergency in, 8 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 36; The Grand Inquisitor, 41 Dune (Herbert), 96 Eagleton, Terry, 138–39, 195 Eco, Umberto, 11, 186 Ellis, Warren, 12 Engels, Friedrich, 71 Enlightenment, 15, 72–73, 91, 107, 143–46, 150; dialectic of, 66. See also modernity expansionism, 12, 147, 186; economic, 81, 124, 133, 144, 148; military, 5, 27, 37, 127 fascism, 11, 38, 126, 131–32; in V for Vendetta (Moore), 132, 154–66, 171–73, 178, 186 Fawkes, Guy, 155 Fishbaugh, Brent, 190 Ford, Gerald, 29 Ford, John, 137 Freedman, Carl, 2–3, 185, 186; on The Dispossessed (Le Guin), 7–9 Freud, Sigmund, 67 Friedman, Thomas, 74 Fukuyama, Francis, 75, 145, 191 Gabriel, 20 Gaulle, Charles de, 48 Gibbon, Edward, 37 Gibbons, Dave, 27, 45, 47, 48, 50–53, 69, 188, 190 Girard, René, 66, 67, 190, 191 Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 48 globalization, 72–74, 91, 141 Gray, John, 145, 149, 150, 153, 186, 187, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199; on The Matrix, 131; on Varlam 202 INDEX Shalamov, 152; on the weakness of civilization, 177 Groys, Boris, 16–17, 187; The Total Art of Stalinism, 16 Haig, Alexander, 29 Haneke, Michael, 124 Hardt, Michael, 71, 144, 154, 196 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 43, 48, 72, 74, 186, 188, 189, 191; on the beautiful soul, 6 Heraclitus, 150 Herbert, Frank, 96 Herodotus, 150 Hitler, Adolf, 40, 80, 164, 186 Hobbes, Thomas, 40, 148–49, 186, 188, 196 Homer-Dixon, Thomas, 199 homogeneous world-state, 72–73, 191 Houellebecq, Michel, 123 Huxley, Aldous, 120 imperialism, 5, 6, 12, 27, 43, 72 interpassive enjoyment: in Save the Green Planet, 84; in Watchmen, 52 Jameson, Fredric, 2, 125, 185 Jang Joon-Hwan, 19, 71, 76, 77, 81, 82. See also Save the...