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Review of "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" by Jessica Hurley (University of Minnesota Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2021
Jessica Hurley’s "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" examines how postwar literature has responded to discourses, both official and unofficial, of nuclear weaponry and nuclear power. Hurley explores how literature
Douglas Dowland
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The Hidden Bones Apocalypse: The Marker, Its Message, and their Hiddenness [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023
There is an unusual phrase that occurs only fourteen times in the Hebrew Bible. Those fourteen occurrences mark the accounts of ten highly consequential days.
Charles R. Lightner
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Distortion, Messianism, and Apocalyptic Time in The Satanic Verses

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2013
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses presents its readers with a striking perspective on apocalypse. Taking place in the context of a modernist, migrant worldview, this apocalypse works to unsettle its participating characters by teaching them how ...
Clara Eisinger
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Apocalypse Now or Overreaction to Coronavirus: The Global Cruise Tourism Industry Crisis

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
The current COVID-19 cruise tourism crisis has evolved to epic proportions and placed some of the cruise lines on the verge of bankruptcy. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the crisis.
Aleksandar Radic   +6 more
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The Apocalypse and Political Discourse in an Age of COVID

open access: yesJournal for the Study of the New Testament, 2021
It was almost inevitable that something as dominant as the COVID crisis of 2020–2021 would change how the Bible has been understood in mainstream political discourses. It is also unsurprising that the language associated with apocalypticism would come to
J. Crossley
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

open access: yesAngles, 2021
Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world.
Munir Ahmed Al-Aghberi
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Moving On from the Insect Apocalypse Narrative: Engaging with Evidence-Based Insect Conservation

open access: yesBioScience, 2019
Recent studies showing temporal changes in local and regional insect populations received exaggerated global media coverage. Confusing and inaccurate science communication on this important issue could have counterproductive effects on public support ...
Manu E. Saunders   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Information systems research on artificial intelligence and work: A commentary on “Robo-Apocalypse cancelled? Reframing the automation and future of work debate”

open access: yesJournal of Information and Technology, 2020
In his article “Robo-Apocalypse Cancelled? Reframing the Automation and Future of Work Debate,” Willcocks provides a critical reflection on the common assumption that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have a massive impact on jobs.
M. Huysman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Performances dell'Apocalisse nella letteratura e nel cinema postmoderno

open access: yesMantichora, 2020
This paper observes the relationship between word and image, literature and cinema into the description and the visualization of the cultural object of Apocalypse in Postmodernism.
Mirko Lino
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The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism

open access: yesAmerican Political Science Review
The apocalypse is frequently deployed by political movements, especially contemporary climate activists, to advance their causes. This article develops a framework for defending such invocations of the end of the world.
J. Davidson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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