Unveiling Truths Amid Chaos: Ed Simon’s Radical Take on Writing in the Apocalypse
In Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling (Bloomsbury Academic; January 2026), author Ed Simon uses the horsemen analogy to represent pandemic (white), authoritarianism (red), technocracy (black), and climate change (pale). He describes these issues as being a polycrisis (or the Great Unravelling): four crises all intertwined and having negative impacts on the world. But as he notes later in the book, “”Apocalypse” happens a lot, even if the current one we’re facing could be the final one.”
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