
Everyday Apocalypse
Art, Empire, and the End of the World
David Dark(Author)
Vanderbilt University Press
Published on 15. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-0-8265-0795-2 (ISBN)
Description
Everyday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brought into focus. Interweaving an examination of popular culture with ancient insight and contemporary political awareness, Dark uses the concept of the apocalyptic to celebrate epiphanies about the world we live in and the meaning of human experience within it. Since its original publication in 2002, the book has become a deeply influential text among two generations of intellectual evangelical Christians who find themselves at odds with their families and communities over issues of politics and culture, particularly in the South.
This revised edition of the book includes a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib, an extensive afterword, updates in light of the passage of time since its publication, and new insights from the author, whose outspokenness has placed him outside of circles in which he was once supported and celebrated.
This revised edition of the book includes a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib, an extensive afterword, updates in light of the passage of time since its publication, and new insights from the author, whose outspokenness has placed him outside of circles in which he was once supported and celebrated.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the first edition:"[Dark] is a wide, wise, and good reader, and this book shows him also to be a fine writer-illuminating, engaging, often funny, sometimes disturbing. Familiarity with the cultural phenomena to which he points is helpful, but not necessary. Throughout he helpfully gestures toward others with apocalyptic eyeglasses: poets, theologians, critics, celebrities. If readers allow the book to do its work, they, too, will acquire what he calls 'apocalyptic acumen' or 'imaginative magnanimity.'"
-Publishers Weekly
More details
Edition
New Edition, Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Tennessee
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8265-0795-2 (9780826507952)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
David Dark teaches among incarcerated communities and is professor of religion and the arts at Belmont University.
Content
A Few Words on What You Have in Front of You
Foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib
Chapter One | Fight the Real Enemy: Apocalyptic & Earthseed & the Lyricism of Protest
Chapter Two | You Think You Been Redeemed: Flannery O'Connor's Exploding Junk Pile of Despair
Chapter Three | Damn Everything but the Circus: Loving The Simpsons
Chapter Four | Fear Stalks the Land!: Paying Attention with Radiohead
Chapter Five | We Become What We Internet: The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Self-Induced Hallucinations
Chapter Six | We're All Part of the Total Scene: Digging In with Beck
Chapter Seven | Daylight Is a Dream If You've Lived with Your Eyes Closed: The Righteous Cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen
Chapter Eight | The Show Must Go On: Art Eats Empire for Breakfast
Afterword
Notes
Foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib
Chapter One | Fight the Real Enemy: Apocalyptic & Earthseed & the Lyricism of Protest
Chapter Two | You Think You Been Redeemed: Flannery O'Connor's Exploding Junk Pile of Despair
Chapter Three | Damn Everything but the Circus: Loving The Simpsons
Chapter Four | Fear Stalks the Land!: Paying Attention with Radiohead
Chapter Five | We Become What We Internet: The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Self-Induced Hallucinations
Chapter Six | We're All Part of the Total Scene: Digging In with Beck
Chapter Seven | Daylight Is a Dream If You've Lived with Your Eyes Closed: The Righteous Cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen
Chapter Eight | The Show Must Go On: Art Eats Empire for Breakfast
Afterword
Notes