has anyone ever historicized or made a genealogy of the particular hobbesian post-apocalyptic fantasy where the collapse of the state produces wars over resources and societal devolution (turning "back" into "savages" etc)? Where does that fantasy come from?
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@gerrycanavan has all the answers -
It’s in Shelley’s THE LAST MAN, so it’s original recipe in that sense, but it effectively becomes US state policy in the postwar nuclear panic period, especially as the inducement to move to the suburbs to spread out potential targets gets mixed up with anti-urban race panic.
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@jessnevins -
Richard Jefferies' AFTER LONDON (1885) did the pastoral post-apocalypse thing very influentially, but post-apocalypse strife...there were 1930s pulp stories about it, but I can't think of an earlier novel about it in the Mad Max vein.
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Smashed societies are a Cold War-cum-WWIII trope, I presume, but any precursors would be of great interest...!
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