{"product_id":"semiotics-of-the-end-essays-on-capitalism-and-the-apocalypse","title":"Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack before the first edition of Semiotics of the End was published by the established Institute of Network Cultures, we joined Blue Labyrinths and NON in promoting three excerpts from what looked like a very promising book. We anticipated the first edition with some excitement, and we were secretly wishing we could have been the publisher, so when the author approached us about a second edition, we were delighted to facilitate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    “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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    Essay One: Not with a Bang, but a Yawn\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Two: Capitalism and Dark Media\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Three: After the End of All Things\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Four: Meltdown Now\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Five: Violence Against the Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Six: Overdrive and Meaning: Les Rallizes Dénudés\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Seven: Doom Loop Forever\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Eight: Technology Degree Zero\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Nine: To Sleep, Perchance...\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Ten: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Eleven: The Backrooms \u003cbr\u003e    Essay Twelve: The Ghost in Architecture\u003cbr\u003e    Essay Thirteen: Anti-Hauntology\u003cbr\u003e    Afterword: New Beginnings by Matt Bluemink \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIOS: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlessandro Sbordoni \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Cagliari in 1995. He is the author of The Shadow of Being: Symbolic \/ Diabolic (2nd edition, Miskatonic Virtual University Press, 2023). He is an editor of the British magazine Blue Labyrinths and the Italian magazine Charta Sporca. He lives in London and works for the Open Access publisher Frontiers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Bluemink\u003c\/strong\u003e is a philosopher and writer from London. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Blue Labyrinths magazine. Matt’s research is focused on the relationship between the philosophy of technology, media theory and urbanism. He also writes on contemporary music, literature, and digital culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO BE CITED AS:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSbordoni, A. (2024) Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse. 2nd Edition. Berlin\/Nicosia: Becoming. 978-9925-8118-6-1.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becoming Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53501003268443,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_SemioticsoftheEnds.jpg?v=1783083883","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/en\/products\/semiotics-of-the-end-essays-on-capitalism-and-the-apocalypse","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}