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  <dc:type xml:lang="ita">Testo</dc:type>
  <dc:type xml:lang="ita">Capitolo di libro</dc:type>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:type xml:lang="deu">Text</dc:type>
  <dc:type xml:lang="deu">Buchkapitel</dc:type>
  <dc:publisher>University of Krems Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:description xml:lang="eng">This essay interrogates the politics of desire at play in the contemporary fascination with apocalyptic narratives in pop media and videogames in particular. Drawing on cultural theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Mark Fisher, and Slavoj Žižek, it opens historical, socioeconomic, and ideological perspectives on why we enjoy apocalyptic fantasies – particularly in a present that is itself marked by crises, stagnation, and decline. To this end, the evolution of the cyberpunk genre and the Fallout franchise are examined as symptomatic products of their time. Both reflect the crises of their respective historical conjunctures and are imbued with time-specific sets of ideology and futuristic imagination. Lastly, Disco Elysium is discussed as a game that, through an act of unusual self-awareness, might just point beyond the apocalyptic spectacularism commonly displayed in apocalyptic media.</dc:description>
  <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</dc:rights>
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  <dc:title xml:lang="eng">Apocalyptic Escapism? Futuristic Imagination and Apocalyptic Media at the End of History</dc:title>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.48341/e04v-8397</dc:identifier>
  <dc:type xml:lang="eng">Text</dc:type>
  <dc:type xml:lang="eng">book part</dc:type>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Escapism</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">End of History</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Capitalist Realism</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Cyberpunk</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Fallout</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xml:lang="eng">Disco Elysium</dc:subject>
  <dc:date>2025-11-14</dc:date>
  <dc:creator>Danny Hinrichs</dc:creator>
  <dc:identifier>https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:5811</dc:identifier>
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