ARCHAEOGENEALOGY OF THE “END”: FROM THE BIBLICAL APOCALYPSE TO THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK

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Abstract

This article proposes an archeogenealogical analysis of the “end,” tracing its discursive formations. To this end, we use the theoretical methodological tools of Archeogenealogical Discourse Analysis, exploring the notions of statement, discursive formation, device, archive, and episteme. Our goal is to examine the historical conditions of possibility that allowed the emergence of discourses at the end. Our corpus is the article “Why the Doomsday Clock is Closer to the Hour of Destruction Than Ever,” published by BBC News Brasil on January 29, 2025. With this, we seek to analyze other discursive substances in historicity that intersect with the projection of this “end.” In the end, as a result, we hope to understand the functioning of the various discursive articulations of the “end” throughout history, understanding how these notions were constructed and resignified, becoming a truth of this and other eras that has not yet expired.

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Damião Francisco Boucher, Universidade Federal do Tocantins - UFT

Professor da Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT).

Thiago Barbosa Soares, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Possui graduação em Letras, português/inglês, pela Universidade do Vale do Sapucaí (2009), em Psicologia pela Universidade Paulista (2014) e em Filosofia pela Universidade de Franca (2014), especialização em Estudos Literários pela Faculdade Comunitária de Campinas (2013), mestrado em Linguística pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2015) e doutorado em Linguística pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (2018). É membro pesquisador do Laboratório de Estudos do Discurso (LABOR-UFSCar) e do Grupo de Estudos em Análise do discurso e História das ideias linguísticas (VOX-UFSCar). É professor nos cursos de graduação em Letras e de pós-graduação stricto sensu em Letras da Universidade Federal do Tocantins no campus de Porto Nacional.

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Published

2026-04-07

Issue

Vol. 47 (2025)

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Artigos Tema Livre

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