Joseph Tainter on ‘Collapse’
“Collapse is a broad term that can cover many kinds of processes. It means different things to different people. Some see collapse as a thing that could happen only to […]
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Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating
Eighty million more to starve Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change analysis warns of collapse in food production. A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
Embracing Subsistence Agriculture During the Collapse of Industrial Capitalism
We occupy human environments that are overlapped by numerous social, moral, and political systems. Some of these interlock while it’s unclear how exactly others relate to one another. The more […]
Collapse Patchworks: A Theory
Originally published on THE LIBERTARIAN IDEAL: Collapse Patchworks: A Theory by Chris Shaw The complexity of modern industrial, social and organisational flows presents the headlong perception of dromological speed[1]. As […]
Deterritorializing the Future?
“The era of climate change involves the mutation of systems beyond 20th century anthropomorphic models and has stood, until recently, outside representation or address. Understood in a broad and critical […]
Resisting the Coming Barbarism
Isabelle Stengers’ book, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism (2015), is available for free as a .pdf download here. Below is an official description of the book: There has […]
Anthropocene Hubris
Anthropocene Hubris by Stephanie Wakefield source: E-FLUX Precarious Entanglement In the Anthropocene—the current terminal period of neoliberal capitalism marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and social-political unraveling—calls to rethink human […]
Kim Stanley Robinson, THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE
Philosopher and cultural critic Steven Shaviro reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s new book: “The Ministry for the Future (2020) is dedicated to Fredric Jameson, and it offers an elegant and effective […]
The Collapse of Change: A View from the Future
The ship’s log of Novo Potosi is an exploration of the future looking backward to recent Latin American history. Almost like an anthropology of the future, Potosi explores a dystopian […]
A field guide to the Dragons of Climate Inaction
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. Its scale defies comprehension, and conceals its true nature – not as one gigantic issue, but as many. In order […]
2050: Risk, Security, Collapse
“The true worst-case scenario might be one where we don’t venture out from our safe harbors of knowledge to explore the more treacherous shores of uncertainty.” — Dr. Gavin Schmidt, […]
China Miéville: Limits of Utopia
China Miéville, award-winning science fiction author and associate professor of creative writing at Warwick University in England, speaks on “the limits of utopia,” exploring links between environmentalism and social justice […]
Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them?
Deep Adaptation is a thing. And a damn good thing. This from Professor Jem Bendell: Would you consider yourself middle class? Perhaps amongst the middle class in the West, or […]
magnitudes of the end
Sometimes you come across something and think: fuck, I wish I’d written that. Well… Our starting point is clear. This is the end of a world, and if we are […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty…
The Upside of Accepting Collapse?
The Benefits of Accepting the Possibility of Environmental Collapse and Human Extinction By John Bell British Professor of Sustainability Leadership, Jem Bendell, has recently published a thoughtful review of the […]
Climate Change as Ecological Colonialism
Abstract: Climate change is a consequence of a clash between deregulated capitalism and the welfare of mankind deeply entrenched in a capitalist economic system based upon the persistent exploitation of […]
Collapse of Complex Societies
In the video below anthropologist and historian Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the classic study The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), details some of the factors which led to the collapse of […]
Facing Breakdown
The following report was published on Feb 12/2019 by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The conclusions are as clear as they are alarming. No one associated with policy or […]
Accelerating increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – On the way to 10°C?
Devastating new research released today indicating we may already be heading for 10°C increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels. This would entail a complete breakdown of the biosphere and the […]
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