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    Commoning Art. Die transformativen Potenziale von Commons…

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    Arch+ 248. Stuttgart. Die produktive Stadtregion und die…

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    HUTS. The Vanishing Rural Traditions and Vernacular…

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    Günther Domenig. Dimensional. In Resonanz. In Resonance. V…

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    Surfing with Satoshi. Art, Blockchain and NFTs

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    Fast, Fluid, Fragmented. Art and Design in the Digital Age

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    Typology of Intimacy. An Emotional Catalog of Booths

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    Bande à part. On Independent Art Institutions

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    Yale: History of an Art School

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    Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies

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    Project Stories Volume 1. Architectural Practice Today

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    The Memeing of Mark Fisher

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    Digitalisierung und Architektur in Lehre und Praxis

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    Coming to Berlin

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    World of Interiors

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    Transition to Nowhere. Art in History After 1989

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    Latour for Architects

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    Politische Körper. Von Sorge und Solidarität

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    Design Emergency: Building a Better Future

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    Rizoma Architetture. Togetherness

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    What Is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy

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    Stuck on the Platform. Reclaiming the Internet

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    Vom seriellen Plattenbau zur komplexen Großsiedlung.…

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    Otl Aicher. Designer. Typograf. Denker.

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    Toward a Transindividual Self. A study in social dramaturgy

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    Schön hier. Architektur auf dem Land

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    Hyperemployment – Post-work, Online Labour and Automation

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    Unpayable Debt

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    Cybermedia. Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision

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 €