Apocalypse then : (altri) frammenti di impegno postmoderno tra fantascienza, humour ed ecologismo

This paper takes into account Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos (1985), Stefano Benni’s Terra! (1983), and the first volume (1979) of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as the expression of several social stances: distrust in the technological progress, antimilitarism, ecologism, critique of anthropocentrism. It tries to contextualize those themes in the light of their historical background; it shows, eventually, how those works’ projects rely on the peculiar devices of humour and postmodernist techniques.