“Goodnight Moon,” but Adapted for Doom
READ THE BOOK HERE: Goodnight Moon- Adapted for Doom Often referred to as “the very first book to share with a child,” Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodnight Moon” (1947) tells the story of a little bunny, who notices the many items in his room and then bids them each...
Meditations on Doom: A Collection of Poetry and Photography by Mariam Esber
Link to the full online literary magazine containing the poems and photos: https://indd.adobe.com/view/751b4600-9da6-4c59-b4a0-5084cbf3c533 For my final project, I chose to write eight poems that grapple with each of the existential threats we have explored during our...
Behind the “Apple Tree”: Blog-post of the Final Project
Blog of Yehong: Our story started with a simple idea: if an artificial intelligence went rogue and created cyber-enabled information chaos, how would humanity end? Hence, the prototype of the story was that two ambitious capitalists decided to develop an artificial...
Understanding the Policy Context Behind Climate Change
Link to the Paper! In this paper, I aimed to address the reasoning behind why policy implementation is such a complicated and lengthy process when dealing with climate change. Imagining a timescale for impending doom is difficult, and imagining a solution that holds...
Nuclear Energy: Science, Confusion, and Possibility (Blog)
Zeyang Pan, Alexander Lopez de Bertodano, and Sam Corey Read our paper here: https://voices.uchicago.edu/202102bpro25800/project/nuclear-energy-science-confusion-and-possibility/ We wrote a research paper about nuclear energy involving three parts: 1) How nuclear...
The Vision Behind “Genesis”: A Short Screenplay About Living in a Doomed World
By David Naples Warning: This write-up contains spoilers for Genesis, a screenplay by David Naples I’ve always appreciated how much a film could facilitate thoughts and ideas, and this course especially has given us great examples of movies that encourage...
What is “Societal Transformation”?: Offering Marxist Socialism as a Solution
BPRO_25800_Final_Paper_Soloview_Vasily Let me start off by saying I am not trying to convince you to become a communist. If I do, great! But more importantly, I am trying to simply bring up a conceptual framing and a vision of a future that I think has not been...
Threat Level Midnight
Threat Level Midnight: A Board Game On the End of the World Rule Book: Threat Level Midnight Rules Motivation Coming into this class I found it difficult to comprehend what the end of the world would look like. I was aware of...
Infodemic: Disinformation Campaign, Decentralized Propaganda and Reactive Authoritarianism
Infodemic: Disinformation Campaign, Decentralized Propaganda and Reactive Authoritarianism Ruanzhenghao “Shiruan” SHI My final project is a research proposal with my preliminary findings and analyses. I plan to probe into the disinformation campaign mobilized...
The Extinction Museum
DOWNLOAD Thanks for playing Extinction Museum! This is an interactive game where you explore a museum exhibit about the crises caused by humanity. We recommend that you play the game before The museum is located in the future, where a devastating nuclear missile...