Onwards to Mars, or Onwards to the (Ten) Fields?
No, we're not going to Mars, but perhaps the (wedding) music of Fanfare Ciocărlia can help us make our way back to a marriage with the fields [part 3/6]
Mar 15, 2017 • 12 min read • comments
Onwards to Mars, or Onwards to the (Ten) Fields?
Imposing Limits to Music in the Age of Limits to Growth
With Spotify's “infinite” catalogue providing the equivalent of the musical one-night stand, might it be worthwhile to think about placing some limits to music? [part 2/6]
Mar 8, 2017 • 11 min read • comments
Imposing Limits to Music in the Age of Limits to Growth
The Music Industry: Aiming for the Singularity But Hitting Collapse Instead
The music industry managed to stem its piracy-induced hemorrhage. Nonetheless, and like the rest of industrial civilisation, it's on its way to collapse [part 1/6]
Mar 1, 2017 • 10 min read • comments
The Music Industry: Aiming for the Singularity But Hitting Collapse Instead
Mars (The Live Experience) Meets The Limits to Growth, E.T., and Chocolate Bacon
How absurd is this idea of colonizing Mars, you ask? Put it this way: have you ever heard of chocolate bacon?
Feb 22, 2017 • 5 min read • comments
Mars (The Live Experience) Meets The Limits to Growth, E.T., and Chocolate Bacon
Book Review | Failing States, Collapsing Systems: Biophysical Triggers of Political Violence
A review of Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed's excellent big-picture take on what he calls the “crisis of civilization” (as opposed to a “clash of civilizations”)
Feb 13, 2017 • 10 min read • comments
Book Review | Failing States, Collapsing Systems: Biophysical Triggers of Political Violence
Melbourne's Donald Trump Protests: Harbinger of the Rise of Pauline Hanson?
How does Australia prevent its own far-right insurgence? Possibly by outflanking them. In other words, by rescinding its slipshod Multicultural Policy
Feb 3, 2017 • 14 min read • comments
Melbourne's Donald Trump Protests: Harbinger of the Rise of Pauline Hanson?
Movie Un-Review | Wendell Berry, the Not-Quite Rock Star Seer
To see, or not to see the new Wendell Berry documentary, that is the question
Jan 20, 2017 • 14 min read • comments
Movie Un-Review | Wendell Berry, the Not-Quite Rock Star Seer
Make America Peeable Again: The Great Urinal Debate That Wasn't
Could the US finally have a politician with an uncanny familiarity with human wastes that enables them to usher in compost toilets across the nation?
Jan 13, 2017 • 4 min read • comments
Make America Peeable Again: The Great Urinal Debate That Wasn't
Gene Logsdon, 1932 – 2016
2016 saw the departure of a fine writer and farmer
Jan 4, 2017 • 6 min read • comments
Gene Logsdon, 1932 – 2016
Controlling the Collapse Argument With the Fakery of “Fake News”, Or More Like a Case of Plain Old (Unuseful) Idiocy?
Are certain peak oil and collapse sites being blacklisted from being blacklisted, or might those in charge just be daft to the big picture here?
Dec 8, 2016 • 6 min read • comments
Controlling the Collapse Argument With the Fakery of “Fake News”, Or More Like a Case of Plain Old (Unuseful) Idiocy?

A former filmmaker, now jawboning on the collapse of industrial civili­s­a­tion and the renewal of culture. .

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