Language at the End of the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-238
Author(s):  
Douglas Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Early Development ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Significant Attention

Abstract While Ecocriticism in general has received significant attention in Beckett Studies, there is a notable and unfortunate absence of attention to more recent work in this field. This is particularly noticeable in the lack of research directed toward the more philosophically inclined branches of Ecocriticism, namely Eco-Phenomenology, Eco-Hermeneutics, and Eco-Deconstruction. This paper is an attempt at addressing this problem and is intended as an introductory work to what is seen as the most promising of these, namely, Eco-Deconstruction. This paper explores the early development of Eco-Deconstruction and summarizes the work of several of its leading figures with the intention of demonstrating the relevance of this field for further research in Beckett Studies.

scholarly journals Bixa Travesty e outras espécies do fim do mundo / Tranny Fag and Other End of the World Species

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Otávio Campos Vasconcelos Fajardo
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
World Species ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
To Come

Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo colocar em destaque algumas mitologias do fim do mundo e suas problematizações na cultura contemporânea, partindo das discussões apresentas por Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e Déborah Danowski no livro Há mundo por vir? Ensaio sobre os medos e os fins (2017). Tomando como objeto poético a obra recente da cantora Linn da Quebrada, o ensaio discute a realidade da população transexual brasileira com o propósito de perceber como tal sentimento de catástrofe imanente aparece mais marcado em populações que já enfrentam o fim do mundo há alguns anos. Por fim, a análise também se debruça sobre trabalhos críticos como os de Donna Haraway (2009) e Jacques Derrida (2011), de modo a propor uma realidade por vir possível somente com a quebra da barreira de gêneros e com os recursos acessados a partir das ferramentas do poético.Palavras-chave: Linn da Quebrada; fim do mundo; ciborgue.Abstract: This paper aims to highlight some end of the world mythologies and their problematizations in contemporary culture, starting from the discussions presented by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski in the book Is there a world to come? Essay on fears and ends (2017). Taking as poetic object the recent work of singer Linn da Quebrada, the essay discusses the reality of the Brazilian transsexual population in order to understand how such a feeling of immanent catastrophe appears more marked in populations that have already faced the end of the world for some years. Finally, the analysis also focuses on critical works such as those by Donna Haraway (2009) and Jacques Derrida (2011), in order to propose a reality to come only with the breakdown of the gender barrier and with the resources accessed by the poetic tools.Keywords: Linn da Quebrada; end of the world; cyborg.

The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition'

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook ◽  
Nu'aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
To Come

“The Book of Tribulations by Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi (d. 844) is the earliest Muslim apocalyptic work to come down to us. Its contents focus upon the cataclysmic events to happen before the end of the world, the wars against the Byzantines, and the Turks, and the Muslim civil wars. There is extensive material about the Mahdi (messianic figure), the Muslim Antichrist and the return of Jesus, as well as descriptions of Gog and Magog. Much of the material in Nu`aym today is utilized by Salafi-jihadi groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

The Disinherited in Shakespeare’s Plays

Moreana ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (Number 173) (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
Peter Milward
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
English History ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

In conjunction with the current “revisionism” of English history from a Catholic viewpoint, it is time to undertake a corresponding revision of the plays and personality of William Shakespeare. For this purpose it is not enough to rest content with the meagre historical record, but we have to go ahead in the light of recusant history with a reinterpretation of the plays, considering the extent to which they lend themselves to the Catholic viewpoint. This is not merely a matter of nostalgia for the mediaeval past, but it looks above all to the present sufferings of the “disinherited” English Catholics — in the light of the continued presence of Christ who is suffering, as Pascal famously noted, in his faithful even till the end of the world.

The World after the End of the World

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kas Saghafi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
End Of The World

In several late texts, Derrida meditated on Paul Celan's poem ‘Grosse, Glühende Wölbung’, in which the departure of the world is announced. Delving into the ‘origin’ and ‘history’ of the ‘conception’ of the world, this paper suggests that, for Derrida, the end of the world is determined by and from death—the death of the other. The death of the other marks, each and every time, the absolute end of the world.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

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