The end of the world and the end of capitalism reinterpreted via theology, science fiction, and philosophy  

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The motto of capitalist realism, that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism”, is no longer accurate. One lesson from science fiction, the doomsday clock, or even ecological speculations, is that thinking the end of the world appears impossible. Today’s apocalyptic projections of economic-ecological disasters repeat the same problem as older religious eschatology: no consensus on apocalypse is possible, and the very act of imagining the end of the world only obscures it.

We have failed to think the end of capitalism and the world because we have failed to understand the end as such. There is an ontological and ideological contradiction inherent to the meaning of the end. As this book argues, the paradoxical expressions of limits and finitude are latent within a philosophical-literary-theological history covering Thomas Aquinas, Kant, phenomenology, science fiction, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and political theory. 

The dominant ‘apocalypse industry’ exploits this self-obscuring end. Looking at the volatility of aggressive techno-capitalism with its neoliberal and populist deviations, this book argues that modern political economy weaponizes and manufactures the end in order to occupy both sides of it. Our social and political predicament reflects an obfuscation and commodification of ‘endings’, and this book is therefore a political and philosophical attempt at theorising the end.