After the Apocalypse

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Sre ko Horvat is a philosopher and author of dozen books, including The Radicality of Love and Poetry from the Future. He is co-founder of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25).

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Acknowledgements Epigraph

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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

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1 Climate Crisis: Back to the Future Mediterranean

On the importance of wind

Solastalgia for the Mediterranean

'Normalization' of the Apocalypse

Death of Venice

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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

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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

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Postscriptum: 'Revelation' of COVID-19

'Wuhan is everywhere'

Eschatological tipping points

The revolution of breathing

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