Endings

Exploring the art of the final page.

ReadingDiscussionWorkshop

Status: Now running
Started: September 2026
Format: Hangout, workshop, lecture
Where: London

The experiment

How should we end things? From Tarantino to Wild West films and Hamlet, things end with bullets, swords, poison and a pile of bodies.

In contrast to thinking of an ending as a termination, we might consider that 'in my end is my beginning', as TS Eliot write in Four Quartets.

From the ways that narrative generates a sense of an ending, to the notorious proclamation that 'it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism', this experiment invites us to think about how, from the political to the personal, endings shape us.

What would you end right now?

Prompts

01
Do you finish books? Should you finish books?
02
What emotion comes with completion?
03
Do you like fullstops? Do you think in fullstops?
04
What words do we have for an 'ending'?
05
Can trauma end and be reconciled or resolved?
06
What is our relationship to things that have been codified as history?
07
When something ends, should we remember or forget? What are the ways to do each?

Experiment Fieldnotes

12 October 2026 Placeholder venue, London

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