German University Releases First Ever Apocalyptic Science Journal

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The realm of post-apocalyptic media has just reached academia as Germany’s Heidelberg University released an open-access journal that explores “apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic studies.”

This is the first time an academic journal has been produced on this specific topic, according to the university’s Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies.

According to CAPAS Managing Director Felicitas Loest and researcher Jenny Stümer, the journal’s release is thanks in part to the truly apocalyptic events that have been happening around the world.

With greater frequency. Climate change, the Ukrainian war, Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, and Pakistan’s flooding are just a few of these recent events that the journal documents.

Apocalyptica even dives into a deeper meaning behind what the end of the world could be like.

Apocalypse as a mode of thinking, writing and working together teaches us about the limits and potentialities of ‘world’, ‘worlds’, and ‘worlding’; raising questions about what it means to think with.

The first issue of the journal contains six research articles on various apocalyptic theories, an editorial, and a review of two books:

Brian Greene’s Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and the Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (2020) and Katie Mack’s The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)(2020).

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