The Great Fear of Collapse
An atmosfere of fear seems to surround western culture in the last two or three decades. From it stems a new kind of fear, imaginarially expressed in the fear of collapse event. In this paper, we chart some manifestations of the new fear of collapse in the sphere of cinema and of intelectual academi...
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| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Estado: | Published version |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | UNB |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea |
| Lenguaje: | Portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/43059 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/43059 |
| Nivel de acceso: | Acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Colapso. Medo. Civilização. Ocidente. Collapse. Fear. Civilization. Western Society. |
| Sumario: | An atmosfere of fear seems to surround western culture in the last two or three decades. From it stems a new kind of fear, imaginarially expressed in the fear of collapse event. In this paper, we chart some manifestations of the new fear of collapse in the sphere of cinema and of intelectual academic writings. In the first case, with the emergence of collapse and zombie movies in cultural industry productions; in the second one, in the emergence of civilizational collapse as a theme for historians, systems and complexity cientists, ecologists, peak-oil theorists, economists, social scientists etc. Some possible explanatory hipothesis for the emergency of this fenomenon are conjectured. |
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