Dispatches for the Colonial Office: The Doomsday Clock and Watch Collection

Monday, January 19, 2026

Lawrence Hall

The Doomsday Clock and Watch Collection

Since 1947 the image of a doomsday clock

Has haunted our dreams and possibilities

First nuclear war, then global cooling

Then global warming, and now A EYE

If we continue to date and time our doom

Let’s have it as an app, or a clever watch

Strapping the end of time to our wrists

Or entombed in an Orwellian telescreen

The Doomsday Clock has been frozen for eighty years -

Let’s wear as a fashion our existential fears

Dispatches for the Colonial Office