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Humanity's End is a 2009 American fantasy science fiction film directed by Neil Johnson. Based upon a story concept by Johnson, and with a screenplay by Johnson and Michael Jonathan Smith, the film stars Jay Laisne, Rochelle Vallese and Cynthia Ickes.
‘The End’ Review: Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon Took Shelter, but 20 Years Underground Starts to Get Tedious. ... Down here, safe from whatever horrors befell humanity, the boy’s parents ...
The idea of exploring the effects of the depopulating of the Earth is an old one, having been a regular trope in science fiction novels for decades. Post-apocalyptic literature in general had often tried to imagine the fate of civilization and its artifacts after the end of humanity.
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book of political philosophy by American political scientist Francis Fukuyama which argues that with the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy—which occurred after the Cold War (1945–1991) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)—humanity has reached "not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of ...
Director Cory Finley ("Thoroughbreds," "Bad Education"), a sharp director of class warfare, tries his hand at effects-heavy science fiction, with mixed results.
When will human civilization end for 8.2 billion Earthlings? It could be happening right now ... “An amazing new possibility space is emerging, where humanity could provide itself superabundant ...
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries described the book as "highly readable and engaging". [6] The Daily Telegraph described it as an "entertaining instruction manual for the end of the world", albeit jarring when "it seems Dartnell is taking this end-of-the-world stuff seriously". [7]
A postmodern understanding of the term differs in that: . The idea of an "end of history" does not imply that nothing more will ever happen. Rather, what the postmodern sense of an end of history tends to signify is, in the words of contemporary historian Keith Jenkins, the idea that "the peculiar ways in which the past was historicized (was conceptualized in modernist, linear and essentially ...