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标题：Contesting Capitalist Sorcery: ‘Peak Everything’ as Apocalyptic Prophecy
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作者：Paul Reid-Bowen
期刊名称：Skepsi
电子版ISSN：1758-2679
出版年度：2014
卷号：VI
出版社：University of Kent
摘要：This position article reflects on the ambiguous relationship between discourses of apocalypse and collapse, focusing on some contemporary writers who are concerned with theorising the unfolding crises (climatological, ecological, energy, economic and res ource) and consequent collapse of global industrial civilisation. First, it is asked whether collapse theorists can be char acterised as apocalypticists, particularly in so far as they tend to resist utilising the language of eschatology, soteriology and th eology , endeavour to advance a robust evidential and scientifically modelled basis for their claims a nd stress that collapse is ( probably ) not the end of the world and/or human history. Second ly , through a reading of Pignarre and Stengers ' Capitalist Sorce ry (2011), an argument is advanced that collapse theorists ought to embrace the rhetoric of apocalypticism . It is noted that, w hile the end of capitalism has become notoriously difficult to imagine, Pignarre and Stengers elaborate a new pragmatics , wherein activism might be sustained beyond singular socio - political events, albeit only once one begins to think that 'another world is possible.' The proposal advanced here is for collapse theorists to risk a pragmatic apocalypticism specifically as a means of m essaging collapse more effectively, affecting socio - political change and resisting the worst possible outcomes of collapse.
关键词：apocalypse; capitalism; ; ; collapse ; ; pragmatic; sorcery