LEADER 03247nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910820038403321 005 20240417035716.0 010 $a0-7914-8849-7 010 $a0-585-47613-6 035 $a(CKB)111087027855280 035 $a(OCoLC)61367570 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587163 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100066 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11111344 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100066 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019962 035 $a(PQKB)10095710 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407964 035 $a(OCoLC)53226096 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse5881 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407964 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587163 035 $a(DE-B1597)684224 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791488492 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027855280 100 $a20010802d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter the orgy$b[electronic resource] $etoward a politics of exhaustion /$fDominic Pettman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aThe SUNY series in postmodern culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-5395-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: After the Orgy -- $tPanic Merchants: Prophecy And The Satyr -- $tThe Rapture of Rupture -- $tThe Virtual Apocalypse -- $tDecaying Forward:Satiety And Society -- $tCosmic Architects -- $tPlaying at Catastrophe -- $tConclusion: The Revelation Will Not Be Televised -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aApplying Jean Baudrillard's question "What are you doing after the orgy?" to the postmillennial climate that informs our contemporary cultural moment, this book argues that the imagination of apocalyptic endings has been an obsessive theme in post-Enlightenment culture. Dominic Pettman identifies and examines the dynamic tensions of various apocalyptic discourses, from the fin-de-siècle decadents of the 1890s to the fin-de-millènnium cyberpunks of the 1990s, in order to highlight the complex constellation of exhaustion, anticipation, panic, and ecstasy in contemporary culture. Through analyses of rapturous cults, cyberpunk literature, post-apocalyptic cinema, techno-paganism, death fashion, and the Y2K prophecy, After the Orgy explores why the twentieth century swung so violently between the poles of anticipation and anticlimax. In the process, the book raises pressing questions concerning the relevance of such ideas in our new millennium and points out alternatives to the monotonous horror of traditional narratives. 410 0$aSUNY series in postmodern culture. 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y1950- 606 $aMillennialism 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 615 0$aMillennialism. 676 $a306 700 $aPettman$b Dominic$0800847 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820038403321 996 $aAfter the orgy$94027250 997 $aUNINA