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The end of the world and the extinction of the human species will be a catastrophe without event, survivor, or witness. Eva Horn's brilliant and copiously informed historical study explores the potential of 'future fictions' as epistemic tools to anticipate the unknowable—to imagine it by giving it shape, investing it with meaning and affect and thereby making it 'real.'
Email: eva.horn@univie.ac.at. Eva Horn is professor of Modern German literature and cultural history at the University of Vienna. She has taught in Germany, Switzerland, the US, France, and Austria. Her research revolves around the interactions of fiction, scientific knowledge and political thought. After her PhD on German Romanticism, she ...
While historical truth remains hidden from the public, Eva Horn finds in political fiction, which serves as both an indicator and a tool, a means to analyze political secrets. Starting with a general theory of treason and military intelligence as a specific type of political knowledge, the book charts the history of intelligence gathering from ...
Eva Horn is a Professor of German literature and cultural studies at the University of Vienna. She is the founder of the Vienna Anthropocene Network and author of The Future as Catastrophe (2018). Eva Horn, “Air as Medium,” Grey Room 73 (Autumn 2018): 6–25.
Sep 18, 2018 · In The Future as Catastrophe, Eva Horn offers a novel critique of the modern fascination with disaster, which she treats as a symptom of our relationship to the future. Analyzing the catastrophic imaginary from its cultural and historical roots in Romanticism and the figure of the Last Man, through the narratives of climatic cataclysm and the ...
Eva Horn is the author of The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2013), The Future as Catastrophe (Columbia University Press, 2018), and together with Hannes Bergthaller: The Anthropocene – Key Issues for the Humanities (Routledge, 2020). She is currently working on a book manuscript on “Being ...
Sep 18, 2018 · The end of the world and the extinction of the human species will be a catastrophe without event, survivor, or witness. Eva Horn's brilliant and copiously informed historical study explores the potential of 'future fictions' as epistemic tools to anticipate the unknowable―to imagine it by giving it shape, investing it with meaning and affect and thereby making it 'real.'
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