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overview
This note considers digital technologies as a focus of
eschatology and as mechanisms for the expression of chiliasm.
It covers -
- this
overview
- dark
forces - conspiracism about and on the web
- end
times - religious faith and paranoia about digital
technologies and the end of life as we know it
- precursors
- chiliasm before the net
- fizzles
- failed predictions about the end of the world
orientations
Points of entry to the literature include Norman Cohn's
classic The Pursuit of the Millennium (New York:
Harper & Row 1961), Eugen Weber's Apocalypses:
Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the
Ages (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1999), Frederic
Baumgartner's Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism
in Western Civilization (New York: St Martin's 1999),
Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements
(New York: Routledge, 2000) edited by Richard Landes,
The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (New York:
Continuum 1998) edited by Bernard McGinn, Millenarianism
and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture (Boston:
Kluwer 2001) edited by John Laursen & Richard Popkin,
Visionary fictions: apocalyptic writing from Blake
to the modern age (New Haven: Yale Uni Press 1996)
by Edward Ahearn, Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions
of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World
(London: Ebury Press 2007) by Nicholas Guyatt and Paul
Boyer's By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought
& Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (New
York: Pantheon 1985) or When Time Shall Be No More:
Prophecy Belief in American Culture (Cambridge: Harvard
Uni Press 1992). Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion
and the Death of Utopia (London: Allen Lane 2007)
by John Gray is vastly but unintentionally amusing
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