Dystopie každodennosti : Emoční ekosystémy v komiksech Liv Strömquist
| Title in English | The dystopia of everyday life : Emotional ecosystems in Liv Strömquist's comics |
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation will focus on Liv Strömquist's feminist comics, in which the author captures the dystopian features of contemporary everyday life through the collapse of intimacy, emotions, and cultural notions of "naturalness." In The Mirror Hall, The Fruit of Knowledge, and Pythia Speaks, Strömquist observes how patriarchal myths and the capitalist economy of attention undermine the sustainability of social and emotional ecosystems: relationships exhaust their resources, bodies are reinterpreted through ideology, and cultural narratives of nature disintegrate. This "micro-dystopia" functions as a critique of civilization in which the apocalypse is not a spectacular event but the structure of everyday experience. The analysis will show how Strömquist uses sequential storytelling, collage, and archival materials to connect environmental, social, and historical layers. Her work thus expands the space of "green comics" with a feminist reflection on the ends of worlds that take place on the scale of the body, emotions, and cultural imagination. |
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