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Table of contents :
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Whither Dystopia? Why Apocalypse?
2. Dysto-Apocalyptic Hope and the Imagination
3. Pathogenic Shaped Futures, Part I: Annihilation and The Walking Dead
4. Pathogenic Shaped Futures, Part II: Reduction and Y: The Last Man
5. Post-Human Life in a Post-Nuclear Age in Snowpiercer and Sweet Tooth
6. The Massive and Life on a Warming Planet
7. Environmental Theory in an Apocalyptic Age
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index