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Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021
Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins.
Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Time
- Prologue: Jons the Squire
- A Great Future Behind You
- The Afterlife of Civilisations
- Westernised Modernity
Chapter 2: Otherworlds
- Prologue: Anamorphosis
- Aesthetics and Annihilation
- A Chance to Lie
- Archaic Adolescents
- Tetrapharmakon
Chapter 3: Prophetic Culture
- Prologue: The Enigma
- Stuttering
- The Grotesque
- The Prophet as a Position
- Apocatastasis
- A Memory of Having Forgotten
- Prophecy as Therapy of Worlding
Cosmography
- 0 / 15 - Scheintür
- 1 - The Island of Facts
o 14 - Consciousness
- 2 - Mundus Imaginalis
- 3 - The World
o 13 - Angel
- 4 - The Point-Island of the Ineffable
- 5 - The Dream
o 12 - God
- 6 - The Sleeping Gods
- 7 - Being
o 11 - Grammar
- 8 - Non-Being
o 10 - Death
- 9 - Non-relationality
Afterword: Sensuous Prophecy, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo'
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