Combined and Uneven Apocalypse: Luciferian Marxism - Softcover

Williams, Evan Calder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846944686 ISBN 13: 9781846944680

Publisher: Zero Books, 2011

Synopsis

From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving through the films, political tendencies, and recurrent crises of late capitalism, Evan Calder Williams paints a black toned portrait of the dream and nightmare images of a global order gone very, very wrong. Situating itself in the defaulting financial markets of the present, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse glances back toward a messy history of zombies, car wrecks, tidal waves, extinction, trash heaps, labour, pandemics, wolves, cannibalism, and general nastiness that populate the underside of our cultural imagination. Every age may dream the end of the world to follow, but these scattered nightmare figures are a skewed refraction of the normal hell of capitalism. The apocalypse isn't something that will happen one day: it's just the slow unveiling of the catastrophe we've been living through for centuries. Against any fantasies of progress, return, or reconciliation, Williams launches a loathing critique of the bleak present and offers a graveside smile for our necessary battles to come.

About this title

About the Author:

Evan Calder Williams is a theorist and writer in California. He writes the blog Socialism and/or barbarism.

Review:

Yes, another book about zombies and the end of the world. But this is not just another book about zombies and the end of the world. Like one of the junk-suturing recusants whose philosophy he has been central to constructing, Evan Calder Williams builds something rageful and compelling and quite new out of all this fucking wreckage. (China Mieville)

About this edition

• Publisher: Zero Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846944686
• ISBN 13: 9781846944680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 261