Neither Crowdfunding, Nor Oxi, Nor Anything Else Can Stave Off Greece's Systemic Collapse
A recent crowdfunding campaign to bail out Greece does little more than obfuscate the role that energy shortages play in Greece’s systemic collapse
Jul 7, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
Neither Crowdfunding, Nor Oxi, Nor Anything Else Can Stave Off Greece's Systemic Collapse
Teaching Ourselves Out of the Industrial Economy
Teaching ourselves out of our jobs and professions before they're pulled out from underneath us might come in rather handy
Jun 30, 2015 • 3 min read • comments
Teaching Ourselves Out of the Industrial Economy
What Do Climate Change Films Teach Us About Climate Change?
Do climate change films assist us in reducing our fossil fuel consumption or pacify us into watching ever more film and television and spewing out more CO2?
Jun 23, 2015 • 8 min read • comments
What Do Climate Change Films Teach Us About Climate Change?
We Are All Now Cypriots-to-be in the New Age of Bail-Ins
Bail-outs are out and bail-ins are in, the fast-track method for triaging the early “losers” of the collapse of industrial civilization
Jun 16, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
We Are All Now Cypriots-to-be in the New Age of Bail-Ins
The Uber Disguise of Industrialism's Collapse
People are increasingly unable to afford the amenities they've come to expect, their expectations triaged and downsized to ever-cheaper goods and services
Jun 9, 2015 • 6 min read • comments
The Uber Disguise of Industrialism's Collapse
The Apex of Industrialism: Manufactured Fake Shit
Since money is a proxy for energy, it might be thought that energy makes the world go round. Truth be told, it's actually shit that makes the world go round
Jun 2, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
The Apex of Industrialism: Manufactured Fake Shit
To Poop or Not to Poop, That is Not a Question
Human wastes and animal manures have been replaced with petrochemical fertilizers, themselves dependent on fossil fuels. It's time we re-think this shit
May 26, 2015 • 5 min read • comments
To Poop or Not to Poop, That is Not a Question
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures
Colony Collapse Disorder is a symptom of transient pollinators-for-hire, forced to live in giant bee slums and to survive on diets of junk food
May 19, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures
Collapsing Down the Plum Tree
Neither a slow or fast collapse of industrial civilisation are pre-ordained. How (s)low can you go?
May 15, 2015 • 10 min read • comments
Collapsing Down the Plum Tree
Too Much Internet Crack
Too many clicks, too many taps, and I've fried my brain. Time for a media fast
May 1, 2015 • 7 min read • comments
Too Much Internet Crack

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

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