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Eva Horn is a researcher who is interested in how various kinds of disasters are presented in literature, television, and film. We talk about her latest book on the subject.

1:28 – Eva talks about how she got into writing on this subject.

6:00 – Eva differentiates between sudden disaster and the more modern slow creeping disaster.

12:00 – Eva talks about Lord Byron’s 1816 apocalyptic poem “Darkness.”

13:40 – Eva also talks about Cormac McCarthy’s novel “The Road.” She has also looked at various blockbuster disaster movies and shows. Elysium is one film she points out as an allegory of inequality.

16:25 – Eva talks about the two movies “Minority Report” and “12 Monkeys.” She talks about the fears of being able to predict the future. She brings up the myths of Oedipus.

20:30 – Eva talks about how the book is divided up.

22:45 – People used to fear a cooling planet.

32:07 – Eva would like to see more popular interest in the old texts that discuss disaster.

33:20 – Eva loves the movie “12 Monkeys” and considers it brilliant.

34:31 – SPOILER ALERT – Eva mentions how the “12 Monkeys” ends.

35:49 – SPOILER DISCUSSION ENDS

37:10 – SPOILER ALERT – Eva discusses the setting of “The Road”

38:58 – SPOILER DISCUSSION ENDS

46:50 – Eva has an academia.edu page and a page on the University of Vienna.

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Guests: Eva Horn

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, 12 Monkeys, The Road, Cormac McCarthy, Oedipus, Sophocles, Lord Byron, Minority Report, Steven Spielberg, Vienna