Joe
Pettet
Smith

The news is filled with a constant stream of doomsday scenarios; fighting talk between world leaders, irreversible climate change, the armament of rogue nuclear states. Alongside these real world threats to civilisation there are the fictional worlds created for recreational purposes that allow us to explore what it might be like to find ourselves at the end of the world. These narratives have crept in to many aspects of popular culture; from literature to cinema, video games to theatre, live action experiences to entire themed festivals. The borders between reality and fiction, that is, real world anxieties and entertainment are collapsed and intertwined. Narratives of civilisational collapse are as old as civilisation itself, but its mainstream popularity is ever increasing. Preparations for the Worst-Case Scenario is an attempt to understand post-apocalyptic fantasies as a form of entertainment.

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