ABSTRACT This paper addresses the relationship between space, negativity, and apocalypses. Following Jacques Lacan, I introduce the distinction between ‘lack’ and ‘hole’, whereby the lack is considered in spatial terms as designating a relative nothingness within space, while the hole is defined more radically as the point at which a spatial order itself collapses, leaving nothing left but nothingness. Proceeding from these two conceptual reference points, I turn to the apocalyptic imagination.
