{"id":210566,"date":"2022-11-28T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T18:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=210566"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:15:14","slug":"michael-robbins-writes-cover-story-for-harpers-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2022\/11\/28\/michael-robbins-writes-cover-story-for-harpers-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Robbins Writes Cover Story for Harper&#8217;s Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~robbinsm\">Michael Robbins<\/a>, Associate Professor of English, wrote the cover story for the <em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em> December Issue about the end of the world, or what he calls today&#8217;s &#8220;apocalyptic structure of feeling.&#8221; The essay, &#8220;Apocalypse Nowish,&#8221; combines personal history, Marxist and environmental theory, meditations on popular culture and readings of the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt of Robbins&#8217; essay is below. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2022\/12\/apocalypse-nowish\/\">Harper&#8217;s Magazine<\/a> to read the full essay.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And yet. Perhaps it is my early grounding in eschatology and the counterculture that allows me to see\u2014not hope, not at all, but opportunity. Is it not when things are darkest, when all hope is lost, that one fights with abandon, shamelessly shoots for utopia? For then there is nothing left to lose. And I have heard that another word for nothing left to lose is freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Robbins, Associate Professor of English, wrote the cover story for the Harper\u2019s Magazine December Issue about the end of the world, or what he calls today&#8217;s &#8220;apocalyptic structure of feeling.&#8221; The essay, &#8220;Apocalypse Nowish,&#8221; combines personal history, Marxist and environmental theory, meditations on popular culture and readings of the Book of Revelation. An excerpt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":210569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-7_homepage-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210571,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210566\/revisions\/210571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}