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In popular culture
It is misquoted as Imminentize the eschaton!—that is, Make the end of the world be soon!—in Robert Anton Wilson's and Robert Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy (1974).
In Ken MacLeod's 1997 science fiction novel The Stone Canal, one of the chapters is called "Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton".
The phrase is also used in issue four of Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez's 2007 comic Doktor Sleepless. It appears to be the goal of the title character to bring about the end of the world, driven by disappointment over how the future of the past has transpired. Sleepless wants to end the world to keep it from getting worse. The phrase is quoted several times, and can be regarded as the driving force behind the comic.
Frederik Pohl wrote a trilogy of books from 1997 to 1999 known as The Eschaton Sequence. In these books, the human race is caught up in a galactic war fought between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton. The books are titled The Other End of Time, The Siege of Eternity and The Far Shore of Time.It is quoted (on a banner) in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's 2009 novel Escape from Hell.
It was used in the lyrics of the two rave singles "All You Need Is Love" by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in 1987, and the Shamen's "Destination Eschaton" in 1995.
In Mike Baron's Nexus novel (2020), Horatio philosophizes about the human condition, and expands with, "We must immanentize the eschaton ex post haste de facto."
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