Jewish writers founded one prominent apocalyptic tradition in the first and second centuries BCE, in the Books of Baruch and Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls, before the form’s canonization in the Book of Revelation. The feelings attending such events-unbounded anxiety, fear of the world’s collapse, a pervading sense of total doom-are often characterized as apocalyptic.īut apocalypse is not just a predicted event or a structure of feeling-it is also a written form concerned with the possibility of redemption through destruction. A pandemic has killed millions and intensified local and global divisions between rich and poor. The far right is resurgent around the world. IT’S HARD to escape the apocalypse these days. Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex, by Jessica Hurley. 272 pages.ĭesert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, by Ben Ehrenreich. Discussed in this essay: The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert.
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