The End of the World: Interpretive frameworks

(The apocalyptic as ideological repair, in light of national, social, and personal fears, anxieties, fantasies: e.g., 9/11 and American Exceptionalism)


The apocalyptic as social and political
 critique



The apocalyptic as working-through of historical identities 

and trauma




The apocalyptic as resistance and utopia



The apocalyptic as meditation on the post human or inhuman (religious-theological aspects also emerge here with negative theology, ethics of alterity)