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Some musings on The Road and the genre of (post-)apocalypse:
1) (Post-)apocalyptic genre seems to me a very primal genre, an adaptive one, which is intimately concerned with life and death and the struggle for existence. The genre is crucially dependent on evolved properties of the human nature and mind, such as the emotion of fear which derives from human mind. “Fear” is the engine of the genre and the main reason for why genre exists. Humanity’s obsession with apocalypse and post-apocalypse i ...more
1) (Post-)apocalyptic genre seems to me a very primal genre, an adaptive one, which is intimately concerned with life and death and the struggle for existence. The genre is crucially dependent on evolved properties of the human nature and mind, such as the emotion of fear which derives from human mind. “Fear” is the engine of the genre and the main reason for why genre exists. Humanity’s obsession with apocalypse and post-apocalypse i ...more
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