Apocalypse: a revelation regarding an impending catastrophic event, often heavily implicating the end of the world as we know it; the term is sometimes also used to connote these events
Anticipatory apocalypses: the end is nigh! Rejoice!
Antagonistic apocalypses: the end is nigh, and we shall fight it tooth and nail until it has been overcome and a new, better tomorrow (where everything returns to normal) can be secured
Resigned apocalypses: the end is nigh, and there isn’t really anything we can do about it
Designed apocalypses: the end is nigh, within budget and proceeding according to schedule
Selectively acknowledged apocalypses: it only becomes apocalyptic when it happens to affluent people
Understated apocalypses: the world ended in 1879, and no one really noticed
Zombie apocalypses: this might very well be the first time any of these people acknowledged your existence
Nuclear apocalypses: we built ever bigger bombs, and then used them. In retrospect, this might not have been the wisest, most virtuous course of action to have chosen
Postapocalypses: it happened, and we somehow remained
Postapocalyptic zoology: ordinary animals have mutated into unusually large and aggressive versions of themselves. It is unclear how the food chains of these massive animals are structured or maintained
Postapocalyptic warfare: war. War never changes
The aesthetic sensibilities of preapocalyptic postapocalyptic modern culture: its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order
Post-Benjaminian aesthetic sensibilities of preapocalyptic postapocalyptic modern culture: we got self-annihilations we ain’t even got names for yet