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Musings on Breakdown and Renewal
Collapse, crisis, institutional decay, recovery, renewal, and the patterns that follow breakdown.
The Note That Almost Wasn't
A Personal Revelation Recently Discovered
The Thread That Frayed
Wholeness in a Civilisation Built on its Opposite
What the Humanities Still Know
Silencing the Choir that Taught the Parrot to Sing
When There Is No 'We'
The Fragmentation of the Public World
The Architecture of Forgetting
A Manifesto for Learning in the Post-Industrial Era
Beyond the Imperial Monoculture
Why Humanity Needs More Than One Story
The Civilisational Wager
When the majority of humanity is no longer Western
Eighty Years Since the Quiet
I was born in 1945, into a world that had just finished screaming and had gone, for a while, quiet.
Hunger of the Soul
Soul-sickness as Initiation to Ecority
Reading at the Speed of Thought
How the speed of a medium shapes the depth of thinking
What We Owe The Dead
A woman in Rafah wraps her daughter’s body in a curtain because there are no more shrouds.
The Planet is Still Trying to Teach Us
There are moments when a handful of simple observations can dismantle an entire civilisation’s illusion of superiority.
The Cartographer's Dilemma
The world has shifted. The maps have not
The Weight of Witness
There’s a particular satisfaction in dispensing advice about other people’s sorrows.
Reality. What a Concept!
The Power of Our Consensual Frameworks
What Holds Everything Together
Essential Tenets of a Civilisation Worth Inhabiting
Albert Fish and the Manufactured Monstrous
The Futures We Refuse To Prevent
Choosing the Horizon
Navigators, Narratives, and the Fate of Worlds
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