Essays
PhD-grade accounts of the world's endings — humanized, cited, and honest about what we do not know. Written one at a time, through six gates.
The Flood Tablet and the Invention of the End of the World
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Qiyamah: The Architecture of the Day of Resurrection
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Kali Yuga and the Argument About When It Began
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The Cattle-Killing: A Real Apocalypse in South Africa
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In the queue
- · Ragnarök and the Remnant
- · The Year Nothing Happened: 2012 and the Manufacture of Apocalypse
- · Mappō: The Japanese End of the Dharma
- · The Great Purification: Hopi Prophecy and the American Millenarian Mirror
- · The Grammatical Shift: Zoroaster and the Invention of the Future