The notion that our present way of life is unsustainable is all too familiar, yet what such unsustainability actually means, and what it practically entails, is very hard to say or conceive. How should the economic, let alone ethical, costs of mass extinction be measured? As the reality of unsustainability becomes harder to ignore, the question of what the end of the world as we know could even mean becomes increasingly pressing. Whatever projects we may pursue, our lives become increasingly predicated on implicit or explicit bets on apocalypse. No wonder that anxiety, depression, anger and conspiracy theory run rampant today. This course explores the currently (ironically) burgeoning discourses (in theory, creative literature and other media) addressing questions of how to live in the face of the end of the world.