Everyday Apocalypse
First published in 2002, David Dark’s Everyday Apocalypse has been a formative text for Christians interested in the intersection of theology and popular culture and, in particular, the ways art can focus its lens on power and politics. A new edition from Vanderbilt University Press includes updates meant to speak to our current cultural moment. Dark teaches in incarcerated communities and is a professor of religion and the arts at Belmont University, as well the author of the Substack Dark Matter.
In the opening chapter of Everyday Apocalypse you write about the word apocalypse: “In its root meaning, it’s not about destruction or fortune-telling; it’s about revealing. . . . It’s a call-out as well as a call-in. A both/and, cool and hot but never ever lukewarm kind of thing.” Can you say more about the book’s title and its connection to art?
