Life Deactivated
Philosophies on the End of the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353365 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Bartoloni (0000-0003-4892-4328, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway), Enea Bianchi (0000-0001-9756-7182, Universidade de São Paulo) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 25-41 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02632764251334548 |
| OpenAlex | W4410884173 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This article examines apocalyptic scenarios and their philosophical implications through the lens of Italian philosophy, game and literary studies. Through Giorgio Agamben's concepts of 'inoperativity' and 'technologia sacra', the study critiques various proposed responses to global crises, from technological utopianism to primitivist returns to nature, highlighting possible issues and limitations. Central to the discussion is the relationship between human and non-human entities, culture and nature, and the potential for a post-anthropocentric worldview. In the last section, the article proposes that the viral perspective presented in the video game The Last of Us offers a provocative model for reimagining human subjectivity and our relationship to the world, suggesting new ways of conceptualizing agency, intentionality, and ethics in the Anthropocene, emphasizing the entanglement of all forms of life and matter
Aesthetics · Dead end · End of history · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty
Nihil Unbound
Powers of Horror
Agamben's Potential
On the Limits of Violence
Continued relevance of Dante Alighieri’s Comedy that transformed the soul and the culture
Reassembling the Social
Renunciation
In the Shadow of the Mammoth
The singularity is near
Pedagogical and Philosophico-Political Abdication
Unbecoming Human
The Highest Poverty
The Climate of History
Rethinking the apocalypse
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |