{"product_id":"semiotics-of-the-end-essays-on-capitalism-and-the-apocalypse","title":"Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eBack before the first edition of \u003cem\u003eSemiotics of the End\u003c\/em\u003e was published by the established \u003ci\u003eInstitute of Network Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e, we joined \u003cem\u003eBlue Labyrinths\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNON\u003c\/em\u003e 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 class=\"p1\"\u003eThis book contains 13 essays (14 including Matt Bluemink’s Afterword) about the plethora of signs that constitute our understanding of “the End”,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eexploring 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\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“The apocalypse as such will not take place, as it is already finished\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Today, there is no longer any difference between the end of the world and capitalism itself: from Britney Spears’ \u003ci\u003eTill the World Ends\u003c\/i\u003e to The Caretaker’s \u003ci\u003eEverywhere at the End of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eAvenger’s Endgame\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eDonnie Darko\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 class=\"p1\"\u003eIn contrast with Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism, \u003ci\u003eSemiotics of the End\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of Being: Symbolic \/ Diabolic\u003c\/em\u003e (2nd edition, Miskatonic Virtual University Press, 2023). He is an editor of the British magazine \u003cem\u003eBlue Labyrinths\u003c\/em\u003e and the Italian magazine \u003cem\u003eCharta Sporca\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in London and works for the Open Access publisher \u003cem\u003eFrontiers\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Bluemink\u003c\/strong\u003e is a philosopher and writer from London. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eBlue Labyrinths\u003c\/em\u003e 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 class=\"p3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBECOMING006\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: 18 x 11 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover, 117 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeptember 2024\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 978-9925-8118-6-1\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecond edition \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTO BE CITED AS:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSbordoni, A. (2024) Semiotics of the End: Essays on Capitalism and the Apocalypse. 2nd Edition. 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