In this piece, Catherine Keller and Mayra Rivera reflect on "the end of the world," "climate apocalypse," and the aftermath…
Unveiling the end times: Neoliberalism and apocalypse
Editorial board member Todne Thomas (Harvard Divinity School) and editor Mona Oraby (Amherst College) cocurated this forum that queries the meaning of apocalypse during this critical moment in history.
Through a series of paired conversations, contributors address questions such as: What is ending in apocalypse? How do people enter into or prepare for the end of the world? Who is rejoicing as the world ends? In what ways are the end times precipitated by neoliberalism? Are there spaces of renewal amid apocalyptic unveiling? Where are they and what do they look like? How can speculative religious studies help us read the signs of the end times? Which textual, audio, or visual works inspire or motivate your thinking about apocalypse?
Apocalypse when? Andean world-turnings in an era of neoliberalism, and after
Anthropologists Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Taylor C. Nelms set their discussion of neoliberalism and apocalypse in Ecuador during the turn of…
The longue durée of apocalypse
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne discuss apocalypse as both beginning and ending in the context of the rise of settler…
On the ethics of impossibility
Jessica Hurley and Dan Sinykin both published books about apocalypse in 2020, which they discuss among other topics in this…
Neoliberalism and ambient apocalypse
In this dialogue, Courtney Bender and Todne Thomas discuss monumentality, slow violence, and sightlines of neoliberalism and apocalypse; the affective…