Johan Höglund

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself. This is an open access book.

The American Climate Emergency Narrative reveals how much of what has been called "climate fiction" casts ecological breakdown as an emergency for American capitalist modernity rather than for the planet. The book traces the origins of this narrative back to the arrival of settler capitalism in America, when the understanding of the planet and its people as extractable resources was established. Since then, this narrative has elided the violent history of the climate crisis while at the same time leveraging the military as a bulwark against the crises capitalism has caused, the people it has uprooted, even the ailing planet itself. This is an open access book.

Många tar droger för att få det. Andra hoppar från branta stup med ett snöre runt foten. Det finns till och med folk som får ståpäls över att se sina aktier stiga i värde med några hundradels procent. Men inte vi.Vi slåss.EN AV GRABBARNA är Johan Höglunds egen berättelse om resan från ung, sökande kille i en Stockholmsförort till att bli en av originalmedlemmarna i Sveriges mest ökända fotbollsfirma: Firman Boys. Den handlar om boxen, kickarna, brödraskapet, värderingarna, våldets tjusning och vad som till sist får en att gå vidare.»Det kommer fler såna här grabbar. Kanske till och med många fler än vi kan föreställa oss. Och vi ska inte se mellan fingrarna eller ursäkta dem -- men vi måste försöka förstå dem.«ur Musse Hasselvalls förord

This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and history in the West. The chapters explore a variety of animal horror films from a number of different perspectives. This is an indispensable study for students and scholars of cinema, horror and animal studies.

The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ’imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender, degeneration and invasion, with the destruction of society, the collapse of modernity and the disintegration of capitalism. Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony that goes back to the beginning of the Republic and which have given shape to the first decade of the millennium. From the frontier gothic of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly to the apocalyptic torture porn of Eli Roth's Hostel, the American imperial gothic dramatises the desires and anxieties of empire. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.

This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and history in the West. The chapters explore a variety of animal horror films from a number of different perspectives. This is an indispensable study for students and scholars of cinema, horror and animal studies.

The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ’imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender, degeneration and invasion, with the destruction of society, the collapse of modernity and the disintegration of capitalism. Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony that goes back to the beginning of the Republic and which have given shape to the first decade of the millennium. From the frontier gothic of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly to the apocalyptic torture porn of Eli Roth's Hostel, the American imperial gothic dramatises the desires and anxieties of empire. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.

Visste du att ... Det finns äldreboenden som tackar ja till en teaterföreställning där alla medverkande dör. Det går att få polisen att ge ett skriftligt godkännande på att köpa sex av prostituerade. Det går att få svenska tidningar att publicera en artikel som det inte finns någon som helst sanning i. Det går att få Ikea att be om ursäkt och ersätta med ett presentkort på 500 kr trots att du inte ens handlat på Ikea. Det finns högstadieskolor som tackar ja till en sex- och samlevnadspjäs där man går igenom risker och tips i samband med fisting. Det går utmärkt att få en tyghund avlivad på svenska djursjukhus, framför ögonen på dina barn. Detta samt mycket annat reder Johan Höglund ut, med hjälp av tyghunden Snuff, genom kreativa och underhållande mejl till myndigheter, organisationer och företag i Sverige. Boken består av dessa mejl samt alla de roliga, konstiga och ibland osannolika svar han fått tillbaka. Johan Höglund är född 1974 och bosatt i Stockholm. Genom humorföretaget Abracadabra ligger han bakom flera spelsuccéer såsom Hur fan visste du det?, Våghals, Knäppgök, DRAW, Sportfåne m.fl. Detta är hans debutbok.