A Brief History of the End of the World
you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.
Jonathan Franzen • What If We Stopped Pretending?
Through movies that make the unthinkable enjoyable, wrote Sontag in her 1965 essay The Imagination of Disaster, “one can participate in the fantasy of living through one’s own death and more, the death of cities and the destruction of humanity itself”. Contemplating annihilation can certainly be a valuable means of reckoning with death, loss, aband
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