Título:
Bunker : building for the end times
Autor Pessoal:
GVPL_EDITION:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Data de Publicação:
2020
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Scribner, 2020.
©2020
Descrição Física:
xviii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781501188558
Resumo:
Since prehistory, bunkers have been built as protection from cataclysmic social and environmental forces, and as places of power and transformation. Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears- from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers, Bunker is a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now, an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus. The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us, in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.
Conteúdos:
Introduction: Private arks of the underground -- The dread merchants: selling safe space -- Geological deterrence: prepping like a state -- Living with the bomb: a cultural history of prepping -- Pipes in the ground: burying secret spaces -- Texas redoubt: tribulation in style -- Preps down under: bugging out in cities -- Escape from California: boltholes at the bottom of the world -- Sustainable security: Thailand's eco-fortress -- Captain Paranoid: Fortitude Ranch -- The antibunker: bloom where you're planted -- Community nourishment: Utah's Mormon citadel -- PrepperCon: the business of survival -- Rolling territory: the mobile bunker -- Life in a geoscraper: the survival condo -- The concrete cave: vivos Indiana -- Conclusion: The last plan -- Coda: Stalking the apocalypse at Chernobyl.
Linguagem:
Inglês