Apocalypse and Society

Author's Preface

Section 1: Introduction
Introduction to Section 1: Studying the Apocalypse; Adam Rafalovich
Using Apocalypse Scenarios to Understand Social Order; Adam Rafalovich
Walker, J. (2013). American Apocalypse. Reason, 44(8), 56-59.
Wells, H. G. (1897). The War of the Worlds; Book 2: Chapters 7, 8, and 9; Project Gutenberg.
Sundell, C. (2015). Isaac Newton: Scientist, Theologian and End-Times Prophet. New Oxford Review, 82(2), 23–26.

Section 2: Technological Apocalypse
Introduction to Section 2: Technological Apocalypse; Adam Rafalovich
Capek, Karel. (1923). Rossum’s Universal Robots, Act I. Project Gutenberg.
Dawes, J. (2020). Speculative Human Rights: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human. Human Rights Quarterly, 42(3), 573–593.
Donahoe, E., & Megan, M. M. (2019). Artificial intelligence and human rights. Journal of Democracy, 30(2): 115-126.
Marx, P. (2018, Nov 26). Roomba nation. The New Yorker, Xciv, 30.

Section 3: Other-Worldly Cataclysm
Introduction to Section 3: Other-Worldly Cataclysm; Adam Rafalovich
Yarris, Lynn. (2010) "Alvarez Theory on Dinosaur Die-Out Upheld: Experts Find Asteroid Guilty of Killing the Dinosaurs,"  March 9, 2010; Berkeley Lab.
Dasch, P., & Maxwell, M. (1994). In the Dyson Sphere. Ad Astra, 6(2), 38.
Vakoch, D. (2017). Hawking’s fear of an alien invasion may explain the Fermi Paradox. Theology & Science, 15(2), 134–139.
Simon, C. M. (2018). Three explanations for extraterrestrials: Sensible, unlikely, mad. International Journal of Astrobiology, 17(4), 287-293.

Section 4: Illness, Globalization, and Risk
Introduction to Section 4: Illness, Globalization, and Risk; Adam Rafalovich
Hecker, Justus Friedrich Carl and John Caius (1835). The Epidemics of the Middle Ages. Chs 4 and 5.
Johnston, James I.  (1919) "History and Epidemiology of Epidemic Influenza." From, University Of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Studies on Epidemic Influenza Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations, Pages 9-33.
Honigsbaum, M. (2018). Superbugs and Us. The Lancet, 391(10119), 420.
Morens, D. M., Taubenberger, J. K., & Fauci, A. S. (2021). "A Centenary Tale of Two Pandemics: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19, Part I." American Journal of Public Health, 111(6), 1086–1094.

Section 5: Zombies
Introduction to Section 5: Zombies; Adam Rafalovich
Jacobs, W. W. (1902) "The Monkey's Paw," Short Story From, The Lady Of The Barge And Other Short Stories.
Loxton, D. (2017). "Zombies! The Gruesome True Story." (2017). Skeptic, 22(3), 65–73.
Hagman, G. (2017). Surviving the zombie apocalypse: Trauma and transformation in AMC’s The Walking Dead. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 37(1), 46–56
Loudermilk. A. 2003. “Eating 'Dawn' in the Dark : Zombie desire and commodified identity in George A. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead.’” Journal of Consumer Culture, 3 (1): 83-108.

Section 6: Nuclear Weapons
Introduction to Section 6. Nuclear Weapons; Adam Rafalovich
Maag, Carl and Steve Rohrer. (1996) Project Trinity 1945-1946. Department of Defense. Chs 1 and 2.
Mandelbaum, M. (1995). Lessons of the Next Nuclear War. Foreign Affairs, 74(2), 22–37.
U.S. Department of Energy. (2008). Trinity Site, National Atomic Museum.

Section 7: Environmental Apocalypse
Introduction to Section 7: Environmental Apocalypse; Adam Rafalovich
McSweeney, T. (2013). “Each Night Is Darker--Beyond Darkness”: The Environmental and Spiritual Apocalypse of The Road (2009). Journal of Film & Video, 65(4), 42–58.
Nordhaus, T. (2019). The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse What would it mean to get serious about climate change? Issues in Science & Technology, 35(4), 69–78.
Veldman, R. G. (2012). Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists. Ethics & the Environment, 17(1), 1–23.