Posts Tagged ‘apocalyptic’
On The Road
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7 Jan 2010Frank Furedi argues on today’s spiked that, despite appearances, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is not the one-sidedly bleak post-apocalpytic novel it is often assumed to be. It does make some more upbeat points about the human condition. He is more equivocal about the film version. Meanwhile, a new series of Survivors, another post-apocalpytic tale from […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, book, film, spiked
Understanding the apocalpyse
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2 Jan 2010Don’t worry if you’ve missed the apocalypse because another one will be along in a minute. After The Day of the Triffids aired on BBC over Christmas three post-apocalyptic thrillers – The Book of Eli, Daybreakers and The Road – will be out in the cinema in January. Several commentators have remarked on the popularity […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, film, progress, television
Apocalyptic movies
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28 Nov 2009Apocalyptic fiction is one way that the pervasive sense of limits in contemporary society is expressed. Two prominent examples discussed in this New York Times article are 2012 (directed by Roland Emmerich) and The Road, based on the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, which opens this coming week in America. Emmerich was also […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, book, film
Apocalypse porn
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23 Nov 2008Two more examples of the popularity of the post-apocalyptic genre. This evening the BBC Survivors programme – a remake of a 1970s series – was first aired. It is the cheery tale of a world in which a global flu pandemic has killed 90% of the population. This week also saw the launch in Britain […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, film, television
Apocalyptic climate change exhibition in New York
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19 Oct 2008The New York Times has a scary article on the new climate change exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The Times argues that the exhibition is catastrophist in its tone: “There are real issues to be considered here — questions about probabilities, alternative technologies, industrial evolution, relationships between developed and […]
- Tags: America, apocalyptic, climate, environment, technology
Apocalyptic visions
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9 Sep 2008An interesting article by Sameer Panya in Miller McCune on apocalyptic visions in movies, popular books and TV. Examples he points to include the Dark Knight (the latest Batman movie – evidently shows the Joker trying to destroy the world for sheer pleasure), Wall-E (see my post of 21 July 2008), Battlestar Gallactica (the recent […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, book, film
Green culture fuels inflationary surge
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26 Aug 2008The following comment by me appeared in this week’s Fund Strategy. It is related to my cover story on the rising trend in oil prices which you can read here. Although this week’s cover story is about oil it also helps explain why inflation is rising so strongly. It is not just that energy prices […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, consumption, economics, energy, finance, Fund Strategy
Review of Wall-E
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21 Jul 2008Spiked has run my review of Wall-E, Disney Pixar’s new anti-consumerist movie featuring a recycling robot as its central character and humans as little more than fat blobs.
- Tags: apocalyptic, consumption, ethics, film, spiked
Green cartoon indoctrinates kids
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13 Jul 2008Evidently Wall-E, a new animated movie from Pixar, argues if we do not curb our consumption we will destroy the world. According to an article in Slate critics have widely welcomed the outlook it expresses: “So what is this powerful and profound message? Wall-E tells us that if we don’t change the way we live, […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, consumption, environment, film
Apocalyptic fantasies
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24 Apr 2008Why are environmentalists obsessed with the idea of apocalypse? Rebecca Onion, a writer based in Texas, discusses the question in an article in Slate. She points to contemporary authors such as James Howard Kunstler and Alan Weisman as examples of the trend. But the strain of thought emerged in the 1970s with the likes of […]
- Tags: apocalyptic, book, environment
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