Unveiling Truths Amid Chaos: Ed Simon’s Radical Take on Writing in the Apocalypse
The book is divided into an introduction, then four sections: one for each of the horsemen. Each section has its own introduction and two “letters” from the front lines. In the pandemic section, for example, he briefly includes his wife, a doctor, who is on the front lines of the COVID crisis. In the authoritarianism section, he writes about war literature and the war experience of different populations: Chinese, Ukrainians, Jews, and more; he argues that war literature “…tries to express the inexpressible, for the moment that a human takes the life of another, language has already broken down.” In the technology section, he writes about tech bros and their plans to cryofreeze their bodies to achieve long life, and of the computer scientist who wants to create an AI of his dad, by uploading a range of ephemera from his dad’s life, to make a simulacrum that he can talk to. And finally, in the climate change section, he talks about the Anthropocene, and the fact that the world will no longer be as we know it in as soon as a decade. Not that it hasn’t changed significantly already.
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