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04424aam a2200565 i 4500 001 F47F681A477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211117010121 008 201125t20212021mnua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2020053618 020 $a 1517909864 020 $a 9781517909864 020 $a 1517909856 020 $a 9781517909857 035 $a (OCoLC)1201299019 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OBE $d OCLCO $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS229 $b .T48 2021 082 00 $a 810.9/006 $2 23 100 1 $a Thomas, Lindsay Carroll, $e author. 245 10 $a Training for catastrophe : $b fictions of national security after 9/11 / $c Lindsay Thomas. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiii, 287 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index. 505 0 $a Prepare yourself -- Training in an empiricist epistemology of fiction -- Realism : consenting to the possibilistic logic of preparedness -- Thinking generically : the professional management of disaster -- Character : the resilience of the hero -- Looking for the plot : counterterrorism and the hermeneutics of suspicion -- Epilogue : the uses of fiction. 520 $a "A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world. In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm since 9/11) she explores how fiction shapes national security. Thomas finds fiction at work in unexpected settings, from policy documents and workplace training manuals to comics and video games. Through these texts--as well as plenty of science fiction--she examines the philosophy of preparedness, interrogating the roots of why it asks us to treat explicitly fictional events as real. Thomas connects this philosophical underpinning to how preparedness plays out in contemporary politics, emphasizing how it uses aesthetic elements like realism, genre, character, and plot to train people both to regard some disasters as normal and to ignore others. Training for Catastrophe makes an important case for how these documents elicit consent and compliance. Thomas draws from a huge archive of texts--including a Centers for Disease Control comic about a zombie apocalypse, the work of Audre Lorde, and the political thrillers of former national security advisor Richard Clarke--to ask difficult questions about the uses and values of fiction. A major statement on how national security intrudes into questions of art and life, Training for Catastrophe is a timely intervention into how we confront disasters."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American literature $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Preparedness $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Fiction $x History $x History $y 21st century. 650 0 $a National security $z United States $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Preparedness in literature. 650 0 $a Disasters in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Disasters in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894811 650 7 $a Fiction $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00923749 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032929 650 7 $a National security. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033711 650 7 $a Preparedness in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01075503 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Thomas, Lindsay Carroll $t Training for catastrophe $d Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021] $z 9781452964256 $w (DLC) 2020053619 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F47F681A477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search