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The Cold War as the Age of Control: Its Aftermath as Pathetic Fallacy?

To describe the Cold War as the age of control would hardly constitute a critical intervention ; indeed, one could argue that the Cold War determines how control is understood in the twentieth century, in Europe and elsewhere. (Is it a coincidence that the Benthamite Panopticon is rediscovered at this time and embraced as the ultimate critical fashion?) However, rather than arguing that control in the wake of the Cold War climaxes precisely where it is no longer constrained by ideology, and emerges more and more as a self-serving spectacle, I would like to suggest that control in the past decades has been increasingly assuming the structures of pathetic fallacy, nowhere so pointedly perhaps as in recent discussions of the Anthropocene. In order to explore this hypothesis, I will take up the cinema of Steven Spielberg, or rather Spielberg’s as a synecdoche of cinema today, in the position where it depends on reconciling a deep-seated fascination with the Cold War and a structural investment in pathetic fallacy.

the Cold War ; the Anthropocene ; pathetic fallacy ; control ; American cinema ; Steven Spielberg

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