The End of the World with Michael and Stu
The Apocalypse is Everywhere. The End of the World with Michael and Stu is a (hopefully) insightful and (hopefully) humorous exploration of the rise of apocalyptic news, apocalyptic thinking and apocalyptic culture. Each week, we’ll be looking at a work of art, a piece of media, or an historical event related to the (hopefully not) impending End of the World.
The End of the World with Michael and Stu
Latest Episodes
Ep 145 An Unfathered Vapour That Enwraps
We're talking about William Wordsworth this week, his biography, his poetry, his apocalyptic confrontation with the power of the imagination—all the key themes you know and love. We connect his concept of "spots of time" to an idea of wish fulf...
144: All Alone You Say That You Don't Want No Other
This week we are discussing Alenka Zupančič's 2024 book Disavowal, which looks at the psychological phenomenon of disavowal as a way of understanding what is going on in modern culture, with particular attention paid to the way di...
143: It's Been Two Years and Counting
This week we are catching up on recent news, including the White House Press Secretary Fiasco, the Russian plague outbreak, as well as a general conversation about the upcoming midterms. If the Democrats take back both houses of congress, will ...
142: Without a Dream in my Heart
This week we are covering the Manchester City crisis in the English Premier League. Michael leads us through the scandal in order to demonstrate the enormous scale of the corruption that went on over the last fifteen or so years, during an unpa...
