Mad Max and Philosophy

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Doing Philosophy in the Wasteland xiv Acknowledgments xvi Part I Politics after the Pox-Eclipse: Anarchy, State, and Dystopia 1 1 Post-apocalyptic Anarchism in Mad Max 3 Aeon J. Skoble 2 Even on the Road, Violence Is Not the Same as Power 11 Anthony Petros Spanakos and Ian J. Drake 3 Thomas Hobbes and the State of Nature in the Wasteland 19 Greg Littmann 4 The Political Economy of Bartertown: Embeddedness of Markets, Peak Oil, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Lifeboat Ethics 29 Paul Thomas 5 From Wee Jerusalem to Fury Road: Does Mad Max Depict a Post-apocalyptic Dystopia? 38 Clint Jones Part II The Man with No Name: Heroes and Finding Oneself Post-apocalypse Style 49 6 "Pray He's Still out There": Heroism in the Mad Max Films 51 Karen Joan Kohoutek 7 Bloodbags and Artificial Arms: Bodily Parthood in Mad Max: Fury Road 60 Joshua L. Tepley 8 The Meaning of Life According to Mad Max: Fury Road 71 Kiki Berk Part III Building a Better Tomorrow! Ethics in Mad Max 83 9 What Saves the World? Care and Ecofeminism 85 Leigh Kellmann Kolb 10 Seeking the Good Life in the Wasteland 95 Andrew Kuzma 11 "We're Not to Blame!" Responsibility in the Wasteland 106 Justin Kitchen 12 "Look, Any Longer out on That Road and I'm One of Them, You Know?": Madness in Mad Max 116 Matthew P. Meyer 13 Justice, Reason, and the Road Warrior: A Mechanic Reads Plato 126 David H. Gordon Part IV Mother's Milk: Gender and Intersectionality 135 14 Homecoming as Homemaking: The Rise of the Matriarchy in Mad Max: Fury Road 137 Daniel Conway 15 Liberating Mother's Milk: Imperator Furiosa's Ecofeminist Revolution 148 Jacob Quick 16 Demarginalizing Aunty Entity and Dismantling Thunderdome 159 Edwardo Pérez and Thanayi Jackson 17 Gayboy Berserkers at the Gate: Sex and Gender in the Wasteland 170 Jacob M. Held Part V Wasteland Aesthetics: Music, Fashion, Australia, and Nature 181 18 Driving Insanity, Chaos, and Emotion: The Music of Mad Max: Fury Road 183 Lance Belluomini

MATTHEW P. MEYER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He has contributed chapters to several books in the Wiley "And Philosophy" series, as well as journal articles covering Nietzsche, Mystic River, environmental ethics, and colonialism.

DAVID KOEPSELL is an entrepreneur, author, philosopher, attorney, and educator whose recent research focuses on the issues arising at the intersection of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University.