Speaker
Dorian Lynskey
2025 - Everything Must Go. The stories we tell about the end of the world
We have always told ourselves stories about the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the HBO’s, art, literature and politics were all haunted by recurring visions of apocalypse.
Whether we’re fantasising about nuclear holocaust or a collision with an asteroid, a devastating pandemic or a robot AI revolution, why do we like to scare ourselves, and why do we keep coming back for more?
Dorian Lynskey will look through a political, historic and scientific lens – to explore endings that we have read, listened to, or watched with morbid fascination and how these fictional premonitions of the end, play into real-life responses to existential threats?
