Pandora’s Apocalyptarium: A Guided Tour And so it begins, the apocalyptic unraveling, Orwellian sleights of hand, the Pandora-like normalization of the surreal. Hollywood burning as predicted in the day of the locust. Police in Howard, Colorado, …
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Here Be Monsters
Amid civilizational crisis, philosopher Jonathan Cobb explores how radical hope and collective action can birth a new world from the ruins of failing systems.
The Last Litany of Lunev [Installment 2 of 2]
In the dim corridors of the National Library of Argentina, my search for documents on Cold War espionage led me to an obscure and forgotten manuscript of Borges.
The Last Litany of Lunev [Installment 1 of 2]
Stage the end of the world in your mind, any old apocalypse will do, and this is probably what you see. You have just created “the Bunker,” laid its first brick.
Apocalyptarians—Or: “What the F*%K is Solioonensius??”
The future is here. And it’s weird. Very weird. Are you one of the weird ones—one of the Apocalyptarians—who can consciously assimilate the weirdness and use the meta-crisis as evolutionary fuel?
Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 3–5)
That our world has already ended, of this we may be certain. But is it the end of “a world” or of “the world”? It is reassuring that the prophets of world destruction have proven almost 100% wrong—and yet…
Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 1–2)
So, what does it mean for the Apocalypse to take place in the present moment, and, somewhat paradoxically, to be always just about to occur?