October 2011
23 posts
We are Apocalyptic! by BRENT BELLAMY
Evan Calder Williams. Combined and Uneven Apocalypse. Zero Books, 2011. 264pp.
Evan Calder Williams’ Combined and Uneven Apocalypse tracks apocalyptic visions of the future back to their occluded origins, which for Williams is to say, back to the present moment. In different contexts, Teresa Heffernan and Slavoj Žižek have similarly asked: what if the apocalypse has already taken place, and...
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23 End of the World Dates that Have Expired
VIA: http://thedaily23.blogspot.com/2010/04/23-end-of-world-dates-that-have-expired.html
Getting pre-2012 jitters? Me too! But consider these other dates given for the End of the World… ∆ Around 30 AD: Taking the New Testament literally, this is the time-frame Jesus gave for The Second Coming. Matthew 24:34, “…This generation shall not pass, till all these things be...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Enunciating the End
The Apocalypse, Textual Futures, and What Comes Next
March 2-3, 2012
Apocalyptic prophecies and futurist narratives have always had a special place in culture, from Y2K fervor to the periodically updated Rapture to the upcoming end of the Mayan calendar in December of 2012. In addition to the “real” end-of-the-world predictions, and perhaps in response to them, our literature and pop culture has...
