In one of the scenes from the movie Terminator 21, Sarah Connor, the main character, stands in front of a playground and watches her daughter play. She knows that something terrible is about to happen, but she has no way of stopping it. She screams and sees how everything is destroyed in a big nuclear explosion. The heroine has a vision in which she foresees that the human race is progressing towards an absolute end, towards a post-apocalyptic world.
This issue serves as an agent, looking into the future and seeking to show signs of the catastrophe that is yet to come. The apocalypse, in this sense, is not something that arrives at once, it is a gradual process of disintegration and blindness. The signs of its arrival are already here, if we only choose to look. The preoccupation with cataclysmal spaces often appears in popular culture: comic books, TV series and films, science fiction literature, or in religious narratives. These are stories through which we can imagine the approaching end. The media and religion took over our way of understanding the end of humanity, by preventing us from imagining another possibility. Through this issue we hope to enable a different perspective on the apocalyptic process.
1The Terminator 2 (1991), director: James Cameron