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June 1989
4 1/2 x 7, 128 pp.
$11.95/£8.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-936756-46-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-936-75646-2

Series
Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
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From Semiotext(e):
Looking Back on the End of the World
Edited by Dietmar Kamper and Christoph Wulf

I.Phantasms of the End of the World
The Beginning of the End
On the History of Radiation from Plato to Chernobyl
Gerburg Treusch-Dieter
7
The Place of Beginning and End
Caves and Their Systems of Symbols
Gunter Gebauer
19
The Anorexic Ruins
Jean Baudrillard
29
II.Concepts of the End of the World
The Temporality of World-Views and Self-Images
Christoph Wulf
49
Disappearing Adulthood
Childhood as Redemption
Dieter Lenzen
64
III.Beyond Apocalypse
Approaches to Nothingness
Edgar Morin
81
Between Simulation and Negentropy
The Fate of the Individual on Looking Back on the End of the World
Dietmar Kamper
96
The Last Vehicle
Paul Virilio
106
 
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