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6 Introduction: Nine Theses on Apocalypse The Apocalypse already happened Apocalypse as revelation The struggle for meaning Post-apocalyptic melancholy ‘Normalization’ of the Apocalypse Eschatological tipping points Extinction is ‘supraliminal’ Time beyond ‘progress’ Another end of the world is still possible Notes
7 1 Climate Crisis: Back to the Future Mediterranean On the importance of wind Solastalgia for the Mediterranean ‘Normalization’ of the Apocalypse Death of Venice Notes
8 2 The Nuclear Age: ‘Enjoy Chernobyl, Die Later’ ‘Cloud that stopped at the border’ The obsolescence of ‘ruin value’ Commodification of the Apocalypse Supraliminal radioactivity Notes
9 3 The Collision: Marshall Islands Are Everywhere ‘The ontological Garden of Eden’ The collision of the nuclear age and climate crisis The twenty-first-century pyramids Time beyond progress Notes
10 Postscriptum: ‘Revelation’ of COVID-19 ‘Wuhan is everywhere’ Eschatological tipping points The revolution of breathing Notes
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List of Illustrations
1 Introduction: Nine Theses on ApocalypseFigure 1: Graffiti in Minneapolis, May 2020 (photo by Aren Aizura)
2 Chapter 1Figure 2: Italy in 2100. Jay Simons, 2012Figure 3: #NoEsFuegoEsCapitalismo, by Elijo Dignidad (www.elijodignidad.org)
3 Chapter 2Figure 4: Cologne in ruins after Allied bombings, 1944Figure 5: T-shirt being sold in the Chernobyl ‘Exclusion Zone’
4 Chapter 3Figure 6: Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, ‘Castle Bravo’, 1954Figure 7: Nuclear waste warnings; concept art by Michael Brill, Sandia National ...
5 Postscriptum: ‘Revelation’ of COVID-19Figure 8: Graffiti on a wall in Toronto, May 2020
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