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.
Theme archive
Musings on Humanity and Survival
Existential risk, human futures, survival, catastrophe, and the choices that shape humanity over long horizons.
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.
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
What Comes After Downsizing
The Positive Case for Contraction of the Species
The Bandwidth of Sorrow
On Exhaustion, Empire, and the Faint Light Still Coming Through
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