Abstract
The Book of Revelation, the much-disputed final book of the Christian Bible, is seen by many as the definitive apocalyptic text, both due to its place in the holy book of a major world religion but also the prevalence of its images in popular culture.  Herein this article decodes and discussed ideas surrounding apocalypse and analyses chapters17-18 of Revelation through the lens of Justin McBrien’s ‘Accumulating Extinction: Planetary Catastrophism in the Necrocene’, a work that established the notion of the Necrocene, an epoch defined by capitalist accumulation hurling humanity toward the apocalypse. The article seeks to craft a new definition of apocalypse, not simply as the end of the world or as an unveiling, but as a distinct literary feature that, through the use of imagery and metaphor, unveils the cause of the end of the world – a cause which, through the lens of the Necrocene, can time and time again, in various works, be traced back to capitalism.
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