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The end that does : art, science, and millennial accomplishment /

Millennial movements do not always go boom and bust. As innovative responses to worlds in crisis or projections of possibilities for a world in the doldrums, millennialism has been a prime mover for many an artistic and scientific vision of the world reconfigured. Flourishing well beyond the life of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gutierrez, Cathy, 1967-, Schwartz, Hillel, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Oakville : Equinox Pub., 2006.
Colección:Millennialism and society ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Will (poem) / Thomas MacKay
  • In/tensions / Cathy Gutierrez
  • Part I: At/tension. The pharmakon of the apocalypse / Kelli Fuery and Patrick Fuery
  • The merit of time : a genealogy of the countdown / Hai Ren
  • Postcard I (poem) / Thomas MacKay
  • Part II: Re/tension. Collecting the cosmos : the apocalypse of the ancient library / Eric Casey
  • Giordano Bruno and the rewriting of the heavens / Geoffrey McVey
  • Francis Bacon's scientific apocalypse / Steven Matthews
  • Promise (poem) / Thomas MacKay
  • Part III. De/tension. The elusive Isis : theosophy and the mirror of millennialism / Cathy Gutierrez
  • Promiseland : utopian technology and the American millennial dream / Fred Nadis
  • Postcard II (poem) / Thomas MacKay
  • Part IV. Dis/tension. The end is still near : the eternal apocalypse of the tabloids / Amelia Carr
  • Christian apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, and technology / Tom Doyle
  • Unto (Rose Window, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris) / Thomas MacKay
  • Part V. Tense. Y2KO to Y2OK / Charles Cameron
  • Cloister (poem) / Thomas MacKay
  • Respite (poem) / Thomas MacKay
  • Part VI. Ex/tension. The Space Needle hits the road : the portability of home, landmark and memorial / Michelle Dent
  • Ultima Thule--the city at the end of the world : Jerusalem in the modern Christian apocalyptic / Hillel Schwartz
  • International radio / Thomas MacKay.