CONFERENCE TALK: It’s the End of the World, But Not As We Know It: Means, Ends, and Beginnings in the Ideology of Apocalypse

What if the end by which we’ve been so captivated were to confront us in its utter inscrutability? What if the violent eruption we’ve feared and desired for so long—an eruption that poststructuralism tells us is not a transgression of the system but an inevitable product of it and its very condition of possibility—were to surpass the boundaries of our imaginations, the boundaries of our ideologically directed constructions of it?