This book was originally published by Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam; now at the author’s request, here is a second edition of this work, which includes an afterwork written by Matt Bluemink, to whom we attribute the term “anti-hauntology”.

In place of locusts, plagues and horse riders, the end appears to us as rising sea-levels, nuclear war, or A.I. uprisings. While this impending doom ought to frighten us more, it has become blasé, even comedic, for capital has captured our teleological imaginations, and has sold our demise right back to us; as we suspend our belief in its existence, our entire relationship with the future has changed.

Yet, where Mark Fisher’s cancellation of the future leaves us feeling helpless, the work of Alessandro Sbordoni attempts to reverse this hauntological approach through a restoration of the potenza of the future as a nothingness that nonetheless haunts us; feedback from the future guides the present. If there is an end, it is also a beginning, which means the future is still up for grabs.

This book contains thirteen essays reflecting on capital’s relationship with its own end, from cultural analyses of Britney Spears, Donnie Darko or the Internet’s Backrooms, to strategic theories that frame culture as a series of weapons to be used to subvert and change the cultural hegemony of our time, and ward off the ghosts of the past.

About the author

Alessandro Sbordoni was born in Cagliari in 1995. He is the author of The Shadow of Being: Symbolic / Diabolic (2nd edition, Miskatonic Virtual University Press, 2023). He is an editor of the British magazine Blue Labyrinths and the Italian magazine Charta Sporca. He works for the Open Access publisher Frontiers.

“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come’. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution.” — Slavoj Žižek

Softcover, published in 2025, 124 pages, 11cm x 18cm.