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apocalypse, benware, climatechange, death, desade, entropy, extinction, extinctionrebellion, francisbacon, freud, globalwarming, kafka, walterbenjaminPhilosopher Ben Ware has been giving some thought to the politics of the end of the world, and has written a new book, On Extinction (Verso), to talk about it. But the end is coming fast and maybe you don't have time for a whole book, so let's read some essays instead! "Nothing but the End to Come" brings together Walter Benjamin, Kafka, de Sade and Extinction Rebellion to suggest that all our language about the end feeds "into a politics of passive annihilation."