Verfasst von:	Thomas, Lindsay [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Training for catastrophe
Titelzusatz:	fictions of national security after 9/11
Verf.angabe:	Lindsay Thomas
Verlagsort:	Minneapolis ; London
Verlag:	University of Minnesota Press
E-Jahr:	2021
Jahr:	[2021]
Umfang:	xiii, 287 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-276. - Index: Seite 277-287
ISBN:	978-1-5179-0985-7
	978-1-4529-6425-6
	978-1-5179-0986-4
Abstract:	"A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world. In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm since 9/11) she explores how fiction shapes national security. Thomas finds fiction at work in unexpected settings, from policy documents and workplace training manuals to comics and video games. Through these texts--as well as plenty of science fiction--she examines the philosophy of preparedness, interrogating the roots of why it asks us to treat explicitly fictional events as real. Thomas connects this philosophical underpinning to how preparedness plays out in contemporary politics, emphasizing how it uses aesthetic elements like realism, genre, character, and plot to train people both to regard some disasters as normal and to ignore others. Training for Catastrophe makes an important case for how these documents elicit consent and compliance. Thomas draws from a huge archive of texts--including a Centers for Disease Control comic about a zombie apocalypse, the work of Audre Lorde, and the political thrillers of former national security advisor Richard Clarke--to ask difficult questions about the uses and values of fiction. A major statement on how national security intrudes into questions of art and life, Training for Catastrophe is a timely intervention into how we confront disasters."--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781517909864.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(z)Geschichte 2001-2021    / (s)Literatursoziologie    / (s)Narrativität    / (s)SicherheitMotiv    / (s)KatastropheMotiv    / (g)USA
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Thomas, Lindsay: Training for catastrophe. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021 |(DLC)2020053619
RVK-Notation:	MD 8920
	MS 8010
	EC 5410
K10plus-PPN:	1741661617