The writer Jack Self summed it up much better than I can: “living through collapse isn’t a factual statement, but an emotional one. It feels like we are approaching the end of a specific social contract. Modernity is a project founded on patriarchal domination, on linear time, infinite extraction and unstoppable accumulation. In its five centuries,... See more

A lot of people seem to assume that these are the end times—because of encroaching fascism, or accelerating climate change, or the fascists’ determination to not only deny climate change but actively abet it. We find it hard to envision any future at all, let alone a better one. It’s easy to forget that everyone felt the same way in the misremember... See more

A photo that was supposedly potent enough to tell an entire story turned out not to be real, yet people were so eager for a narrative that they would seek one out anywhere, even from a source that was empty, a source that they knew was empty. What did that say both about the story and about the people? A place was actually on fire. Evidence of the ... See more