... . “ The End of History? ” National Interest 16 , no. 2 : 3 – 18 . Grove Jairus . 2019 . Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Guattari Félix . 1989 . The Three Ecologies . London : Bloomsbury . Haraway Donna...

... the complacency and narcissism of postwar affluence (White 2009 ). The novel borrows the notion of Australia as disconnected from world affairs—the “world,” as Roslyn Weaver ( 2009 : 71) notes, has ended but this excludes Australia (for now)—in order to stage there, in microcosm, the drama of the world ending...

...Jonathan Harris This essay highlights post-1945 intertwined aesthetic and political radicalisms in the visual arts, drawing on key examples from the United States and Western Europe in the decades from the end of World War II to the present. It seeks to explore the complex relations between...

... with the much-publicized reaction he had to the images of Ethiopian famine in Michael Buerk’s BBC news broadcast on October 23, 1984? He described the images as “humanity laid bare” and he said that they made him feel “like standing not only at the end of the earth but at what seemed to be the end of the world...

... upon the theory developed in The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact , I begin with Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? and show how Baudrillard explains the emergence of globalized integral reality in the disappearance of the world in a blizzard of signification and simulation...

... connection, anticapitalist struggles are reduced to liberal reforms that end up reinforcing and deepening capitalist production relations. To break out of this trap, we block together several political, philosophical, and aesthetic theories that might otherwise be thought of as mutually exclusive...

...Bart Simon; Darren Wershler This article considers Minecraft , one of the most widely played and popular video games of all time, with over 100 million copies sold. Minecraft is an open-ended strategy game about material logistics, governance, and world building. It is also about a nostalgic...

... assessment of the Ness which, as I have already noted, apprehends “the remains of our own civilization after its extinction in some future catastrophe” (1998: 237). The Cold War is over, but it is not an ending. While the defensive structures of World War Two were either dismantled or abandoned...

... that “Baudrillard never developed the ecological dimension implied in his writings” (61). When Žižek (1994: 1) alludes to Jameson's reference to the end of the world, he takes it to mean that “nobody seriously considers possible alternatives to capitalism any longer,” indicating a widespread, perverse belief...

... against this last frontier, its own horizon. PV: There are two horizons: one horizontal, delineated by sea, and the other vertical, drawn by the sky. On the beach, you see both. It's the end of the world. That's where I wanted to end my days. Because I believe in eternity. I don't believe...

..., the year After Fukushima was published in France, the Cold War had long ended. The geopolitical context in which Nancy’s book is situated is therefore clearly a different one. That does not mean that the world has been freed from the threat of nuclear catastrophe. To the contrary: civilian nuclear energy...

... of our choosing. Sense refers less to meaning than to the coming of meaning, a movement that precedes and is never exhausted by the establishment of significations. 12 To think about this, I turn to the first chapter of the book, “The End of the World,” another provocative gesture...

... environnementale des idées politiques . Paris : La Découverte . Danowski Déborah , and Viveiros de Castro Eduardo . 2016 . The Ends of the World . Translated by Nunes Rodrigo . Cambridge : Polity . Kazic Dusan . 2019 . “ Plantes animées: De la production aux relations avec les...

... against broader debates about the labeling of the contemporary moment as the sixth great extinction. As Kathryn Yusoff (2018 : xiii) argues in the opening pages of A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None : The Anthropocene might seem to offer a dystopic future that laments the end of the world...

... then be seen as a preemption of all such “warnings,” with something far less easily deciphered and far more subtle, not merely provoking fear, but analyzing the probable long-term response to that fear. For, strange as it might seem, anxieties over the end of the world, for the American audiences of Kubrick’s...

... Streyerl's Duty Free Art , that “has a special knack for catastrophe, which it seems almost to crave . . . it settles for the default position which, as the saying goes, is to imagine the end of the world rather than the end of this system” (128). Foster wants to leave the fire and brimstone...

... where cultural politics is as significant as power and economics. “Imagination” here in the sense of Fredric Jameson's ( 2003 : 76) remembered remark that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. 1 Culture is what's left when the lights go out. The last lights to go...

... harm to the supposition that all the effects of the coronavirus are equally damaging to people. Opposing this tragic vision of life, in which we have to take a chance on the outside and political engagement with the world, Levy turns to Alexandre Kojeve's ( 1980 ) vision of the end of history...

... of which we might build up a particular force and invalidate all other efforts as inadequate or misleading – but in precisely that which puts an end to the world as we know it, in that which dismantles the representation of that world, its obviousness, its positivity, its progressiveness … For the simple...

... beyond. As Fredric Jameson, following Louis Marin, argues, the construction of utopias is always driven by “what is to be accomplished after the demolitions and the removals” of the old order ( Jameson 2005 : 12). In this way, “the end of the world may simply be the cover for a very different and more...