Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care
This essay confronts a growing consensus that the apocalyptic mode is the wrong way to tell the story of climate change. Contrary to the widely held belief that an apocalyptic framework invites apathy and political disengagement, I contend that the apocalyptic mode can in fact serve as a vital locu...
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This essay confronts a growing consensus that the apocalyptic mode is the wrong way to tell the story of climate change. Contrary to the widely held belief that an apocalyptic framework invites apathy and political disengagement, I contend that the apocalyptic mode can in fact serve as a vital locus of highly differentiated and deeply felt engagements with the embodied experience of dwelling in crisis. An ecocritical reading of what I term ‘phenomenal apocalyptic narratives’—like Kass Morgan’s The 100, which I will explore in detail—reveals an impulse to care that is avowedly political in nature.
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| spelling | doaj-art-8456ae938f0c4840a9065cba1de2bb8d2024-11-14T19:51:22ZengRegensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies1861-61272021-06-0122110.5283/copas.346Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of CareHannah Nelson-Teutsch0Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg This essay confronts a growing consensus that the apocalyptic mode is the wrong way to tell the story of climate change. Contrary to the widely held belief that an apocalyptic framework invites apathy and political disengagement, I contend that the apocalyptic mode can in fact serve as a vital locus of highly differentiated and deeply felt engagements with the embodied experience of dwelling in crisis. An ecocritical reading of what I term ‘phenomenal apocalyptic narratives’—like Kass Morgan’s The 100, which I will explore in detail—reveals an impulse to care that is avowedly political in nature. https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/346Climate ChangeApocalypseEcocriticismStorytellingAffectCare |
| spellingShingle | Hannah Nelson-Teutsch Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies Climate Change Apocalypse Ecocriticism Storytelling Affect Care |
| title | Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care |
| title_full | Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care |
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| title_short | Phenomenally Affective: Kass Morgan’s The 100 and the Apocalyptic Politics of Care |
| title_sort | phenomenally affective kass morgan s the 100 and the apocalyptic politics of care |
| topic | Climate Change Apocalypse Ecocriticism Storytelling Affect Care |
| url | https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/346 |
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