Ewa A. Łukaszyk

Longing for a Catastrophe:Cataclysmic Kairosand the Aesthetisation of Disasters from Pre-modernity to the Anthropocene

In a famous scene of 2012, a catastrophic film directed by Roland Emmerich in 2009, the hero, Jackson Curtis, flies an aircraft over a collapsing landscape. This well-known visual element, re-elaborated in countless other disaster movies, may serve us as an anchorage for an argument debating the persistence of pre-mode...