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Cover "Semiotics of the End"

Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse

This book contains 13 essays (14 including Matt Bluemink’s Afterword) about the plethora of signs that constitute our understanding of “the End”,  exploring the boring, the exhausted, the doomed, the looping and more. The book is drenched in music, as well as other references to icons of popular and internet culture. The backcover reads: 

The apocalypse as such will not take place, as it is already finished. Today, there is no longer any difference between the end of the world and capitalism itself: from Britney Spears’ Till the World Ends to The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the End of Time, from Avenger’s Endgame to Donnie Darko, and all the way down to the internet’s Backrooms, the world never ends but is reproduced again and again according to the semio-logic of capital.

In contrast with Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism, Semiotics of the End is a manifesto for the imagination of another relationship with the end. If it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, as Slavoj Žižek, Fredric Jameson, and Mark Fisher put it, it is only because we have not imagined anything yet. The end is just the beginning.


Alessandro Sbordoni
Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse
Becoming Press, 2024, 9789925811861
12,00 €