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There’s a Basilisk in the Bathwater: AI and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Religions
Deciding what to make of secular, religious, and spiritual speculations about AI and digital technologies can be overwhelming, and focusing on the extreme utopic or dystopic outcomes may be obscuring the larger facts.
Avery Isbrücker
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The End as Enjambment: Critical Inquiries Beyond the End…

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2015
This introduction investigates the proliferation of ends in late 20th century and early 21st century fiction, theory, and culture. By investigating some characteristics of ‘ends’ I reflect upon some of the aporias of the concept of the end. I conclude by
Sebastian Huber
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Madpessimism: A Manifesto

Nursing Inquiry, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that contemporary psychiatry is confronting a paradigmatic crisis as it collides with posthuman critiques that challenge its foundational assumptions about subjectivity, knowledge, and governance. Rather than a neutral medical practice, psychiatry is theorized as an ontological apparatus embedded within broader regimes ...
Simon Adam
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Hegel, Political Theology and Apocalypticism [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis argues that new readings of Hegel’s philosophical system generate a post-secular, philosophical political theology. This political theology is able to engage with the apocalyptic elements of the Christian tradition in order to understand the ...
LYNCH, THOMAS,JOHN
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Impossible Dreaming: On Speculative Education Fiction and Hopeful Learning Futures. [PDF]

Postdigit Sci Educ, 2022
Houlden S, Veletsianos G.
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David Hellholm (éd.), Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Apocalypticism. 1979

, 1991
Ponthot Joseph. David Hellholm (éd.), Apocalypticism in the Mediterranean World and the Near East. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Apocalypticism. 1979. In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 22ᵉ année, fasc. 2, 1991. pp.
Ponthot, Joseph
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Finding antichrist: apocalypticism in nineteenth‐century Catholic England and the writings of Frederick Faber [PDF]

, 2013
The article discusses the apocalyptic beliefs of the nineteenth-century English Oratorian and devotional writer, Frederick Faber, though initially providing a context among earlier and contemporary English Catholic apocalyptic writers.
Leighton, C.
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Reading the signs of the times: Christian Apocalypticism and the Conspiracy of the Covidians

, 2023
This study concerned about the urban community’s COVID-19 Pandemic provoked conspiracy theories and, for some religionists, initiated the sequence of the end time (akhir zaman or hari kiamat). The present paper delved into the meaning of the pandemic for
Epafras, Leonard Chrysostomos
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Apocalypticism and gnosticism : a comparison of their features, form and function [PDF]

, 2018
Scholars have long noted the number of similarities that seem to exist between Gnosticism and Jewish Apocalypticism. Numerous hypotheses have been suggested to account for them, but no one has yet attempted to examine these similarities in detail in ...
Maurer, Dennis Martin
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Everything That Is, Ends: Apocalypticism in Wagner's Ring [PDF]

, 2021
This dissertation traces the history of apocalypticism, broadly conceived, and its realization on the operatic stage by Richard Wagner and those who have adapted his works since the late nineteenth century. I argue that Wagner’s cycle of four operas, Der
Steinken, Woodrow
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