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The influence of ps...
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- In my reading of Ballard's short story 'Dream Cargoes', I find a post-growth imaginary that focuses on a profound species-wide change of pace in the context of future nano- and biotech waste. I compare this to Tom Wolfe's heady account of the Merry Pranksters set during the Great Acceleration of the 1960s and 1970s. While Wolfe captured multiple fragmented points of view located in scattered time frames in his account of the Pranksters, Ballard is suggesting that time and its specific contemporary associations with extinction, renewability and futurity has become a central concern for humanity at large. I argue that literary representations of toxicity yield insight by awakening the reader to the ultimate limits of consumer culture. Thus, this essay offers an approach to fictions such as Ballard's and Wolfe's seeing them as essential resources for assessing toxicity in our lives as a source of insight as well as motivation to look for alternatives to petroculture.
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- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)
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- Toxicity
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- Ballard
- psychedelics
- Tom Wolfe
- petroculture
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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