CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Goran Vranešević The World to Come, the World to Mourn
To truly understand the Apocalypse’s significance in revealing the tension between faith and socio-political reality, we must grasp its disclosure of the truth regarding the world’s end, even if it is irrevocable. Whether the world has a beginning or an end, its essence lies in constant negation, eroding its own foundations. In this way, the world comes to itself—or it comes to know itself. But amid catastrophes, all the senses of the world seem to have vanished, leaving behind a finite form on the verge of self-erasure. Yet, hope for a world to come has not diminished accordingly.
The project proposal delves into the consequences of the unfolding apocalypse and the mourning that follows. It explores the challenge of navigating an increasingly senseless world, which is becoming an un-world, and proposes a speculative approach, examining both ontological shifts and practical implications.
The Apocalypse strips away the veil of the world, revealing its essence as an empty appearance. The insight into this truth doesn’t confront us with the finite world but rather with the dilemma of mourning losses that defy resolution, trapping individuals in a melancholic grasp of the past, producing specters that reflect humanity’s impasse—where biopolitics is most effective. To move forward, we must mourn and let go of the old world and construct a new one through uncertainty and by embracing the transformative power of mourning.