New ecological realisms and post-apocalyptic fiction -- The new realism of the factish and the political ecology of humans and non-humans : Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy -- The ontology of knowledge as the enaction of mind and world : Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's autopoietic theory and José Saramago's Blindness -- Apocalypse as field of sense : Markus Gabriel's ontology of fields of sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series -- New phenomenologies after poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.
