Fall Quarter
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| EURO ST (F25) | 200B THEORIZING PERIODS | EVERS, K. |
| Kai Evers ETC 200B Fall Quarter 2025 Catastrophic Imagination Revisited The capacity to imagine the future as catastrophe is a central trait of modernity and a vital task of world risk society. Rather than considering the future as the telos of an eschatological history or the space in which history moves progressively forward, the future as catastrophe became with the European enlightenment a medium of self-reflection to continually illuminate the limits, flaws, and risks of its unfolding present. From Kant to Adorno, Arendt, and Derrida as well as from Voltaire to Sebald and current discourses on genocide and extinction, catastrophic imagination in literature and art is tasked to give shape to catastrophes that transform contemporary societies before they (fully) disrupt if not end the modern world itself. What does this task teach us about the capacities and limits of catastrophic imagination in cultural theory and in fiction? European literature and theory, with its transformations and metamorphoses of apocalyptic imagination, dialectic of enlightenment, and risk theory will provide our course with the necessary materials for a reassessment of the function and the limits of a catastrophic imagination. | ||
| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | BEY-ROZET, M. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | BIENDARRA, A. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | BROADBENT, P. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | EVERS, K. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | LITWIN, C. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | MALABOU, C. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | NOLAND, C. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | PAN, D. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | SCHWAB, G. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | SHEMEK, D. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | SMITH, J. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 290 READNG & CONFERENCE | VAN DEN ABBEEL, G. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 299 INDEPENDENT RSRCH | BIENDARRA, A. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 299 INDEPENDENT RSRCH | EVERS, K. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 299 INDEPENDENT RSRCH | PAN, D. |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 299 INDEPENDENT RSRCH | STAFF |
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| EURO ST (F25) | 299 INDEPENDENT RSRCH | STAFF |
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