"Combined and Uneven Apocalypse" by Evan Calder Williams (published 2011)
Similar in its practical (or tactical, whichever you prefer) aim to perhaps John Berger's " Ways of Seeing" (1972), Evan Calder Williams' " Combined and Uneven Apocalypse" (2011) lays bare a different understanding of the world: a world in which its subjects can no longer point beyond themselves to any given cause. The apocalypse is here, it has been, and it will be. So now what? First, Williams really wants us to get a handle on what the apocalyptic actually is - on his terms - so that we can understand what it means to become post-apocalyptic : "... post apocalyptic here does not mean that we have witnessed the destruction of our society or nation. It means what we don't know who are enemies are anymore. The very category of enemy is rendered diffuse, reduced to the bad smell of fear stinking up the place." (p. 55) Williams is interested in the literature, language, and filmic readings of zombie films, films about catastrophe, the t...