TY - JOUR

T1 - What is the plural of Apocalypse?

T2 - An essay on the ends of time

AU - Carey, Matthew Alexander Halkes

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Visions of the (absolute) apocalypse proper to late modernity, which typically envisage the definitive destruction of all of humanity, are often presented as radically different to earlier versions of the apocalypse, which saw the end of the world as a prelude to the Renaissance of a new one. Arguing against such representations of a Great Divide, I propose instead two interrelated theses: first, that the end of a world is always the end of the world for those whose world is set to disappear; and second, that any apocalypse, however absolute it may be, always admits the possibility of a world to come. This introduction explores the role of temporalities of the end, the denaturalization of the world, and Heimatlösigkeit as key aspects of contemporary apocalyptic imaginaries.

AB - Visions of the (absolute) apocalypse proper to late modernity, which typically envisage the definitive destruction of all of humanity, are often presented as radically different to earlier versions of the apocalypse, which saw the end of the world as a prelude to the Renaissance of a new one. Arguing against such representations of a Great Divide, I propose instead two interrelated theses: first, that the end of a world is always the end of the world for those whose world is set to disappear; and second, that any apocalypse, however absolute it may be, always admits the possibility of a world to come. This introduction explores the role of temporalities of the end, the denaturalization of the world, and Heimatlösigkeit as key aspects of contemporary apocalyptic imaginaries.

KW - Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet

KW - Apocalypse

KW - temporalité

KW - dénaturalisation

KW - ruine

KW - fin du monde

U2 - 10.4000/terrain.17974

DO - 10.4000/terrain.17974

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

VL - 71

SP - 6

EP - 25

JO - Terrain

JF - Terrain

SN - 0760-5668

IS - April

ER -