http://www.eschatos.net habitual construction of imagination Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:49:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.eschatos.net/2008/12/11/bennet-royle-the-end/ http://www.eschatos.net/2008/12/11/bennet-royle-the-end/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:20:58 +0000 iambarr http://iambarr.wordpress.com/?p=111 “the paradigms of apocalypse continue to lie under our ways of making sense of the world. thus, for example, the great systems of western philosophy – such as christianity or marxism – make sense of the world by imagining a future in which the world is fundamentally different, in which our world has ended forever.”

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