Theme archive
Musings on Humanity and Survival
Existential risk, human futures, survival, catastrophe, and the choices that shape humanity over long horizons.
Fantasy Worlds
Children Who Read the Future as an Instruction Manual
Who Is Allowed To Say Stop?
A summons to pause unconstrained development of AI
What Life’s All About
We live, let’s be honest, in a world that appears to be losing its mind.
Beyond the Reach of Recovery
Collapse, Ecology, and the Unforgiving Present
What The Body Already Knows
Somatic Intelligence and Industrial Civilisation
When Numbers Whisper Sweet Nothings
Mathematics, Meaning, and the Search for Intentionality
Everything Except Their Names
The accusation arrives early in the Bishkek Declaration, and it arrives with full force: strikes on Iranian territory violated the UN Charter, damaged international law, and put regional peace and stability at risk.
The Beginning of Our Collective Maturity
Collapsing Towards An Empathic Civilisation
Something Behind the Eyes
In the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the horror was never the alien.
The Thread That Frayed
Wholeness in a Civilisation Built on its Opposite
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
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.
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