Claire Colebrook examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world—and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society.

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of a number of books, including Deleuze and the Meaning of Life, Gender, and Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska, 2003).

Provocations
Preface
1. It’s Not the End of the World
2. Technologies of the Self
3. Save the World
4. Bifurcation
Notes