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Why Humans Can’t Get Enough of the End of the World
Any stories we tell about the end of the world will have to be fictional, since once the real thing occurs, no one will be ...
The New Yorker4d
Lessons for the End of the World
And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...
‘Everything Must Go’ Review: It’s the End of the World, Again
The end of the world, it’s no surprise, has been a longstanding obsession. Mr. Lynskey’s book “The Ministry of Truth” (2019) ...
Why Do Writers Write About the End of the World?
Author Dorian Lynskey explores why writers have long imagined and written about the end of the world (and why readers come ...
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It may feel like the end of the world, but that’s nothing new
We can take a little comfort, perhaps, in the fact that envisioning the end of the world and/or humanity is nothing new. In ...
The Independent23d
The end of the world as we know it? Theorist warns humanity is teetering between collapse and advancement
We’ll have to wait and see if any other Hollywood-esque research predicting the end of the world from AI systems occurs.
In Pop Culture, the End of the World Is Always Nigh
A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.