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Through literature and film, this course examines how people at various points in the past have imagined our future--and the ways in which those 'millennial visions' were conditioned by specific historical contexts. The course looks at both positive and negative views of the future, and at secular as well as religious predictions for humankind's fate, asking always how our visions of the future, like a fun-house mirror, reflect in sometimes monstrous or exaggerated terms the concerns of the present. |