The success of any business today is determined by the same criteria as the success of a virus: by how fast it can manage to create more of itself, regardless of the cost to humans or the planet. CEOs are taught that unless they have aggressive plans to expand, their business should have no reason … Continue reading The Future Of The Algorithmic Necrosystem: When Profit Grows A Brain, Where Do Humans Go?
When civilisations fumble in the dark, the risk is not so much that they will lose their way. Rather, the danger is that they will retrace their mistakes - only this time using bigger, more devastating technologies. Each year around May, my town’s not-so-bright mayor decides to spend an exorbitant amount of public money, labour, … Continue reading Breaking The Curse of Sisyphus: Action Bias
When children build castles in the sand, they always like to destroy them in the end. It is a moment of profound psychological catharsis: they are teaching themselves to laugh at loss. But it is also an action of tyrannic control: destruction can be an incredible indulgence. No one is sure how, and why, Nero … Continue reading Why Technobroligarchs Burn Their Own Castles: The Illusion of Control
The most successful oppressive regimes have always hidden behind a colourful theme park of consumerism. Western necrocapitalism / neoliberalism conceals its agenda of genocide and natural destruction behind an endless wall of products, a mesmerizing digital shopfront served to us every day, all day. It is ironic that an existential polycrisis this big can be … Continue reading Consumatronia: When Fascism Collides with Brands and Algorithms
This society does everything in its power to convince itself that the Homo sapiens overshoot party will last forever: distraction is no longer a tactic, but the anaesthetic that keeps this civilisation comfortably numb. In the new distraction economy, the sedation of the consumatronic farm’s animals has become easier than ever: as the media machine … Continue reading Why AI is an Extinction-Level Event: The Era of Made-To-Measure Indoctrination
The Narratives of Intent that Lurk Behind the Existential Problem of Overshoot Life on Earth began as a completely random, chemical accident: Initiate. Nucleate. Replicate. Consume. Deplete. Repeat. Die. It is no less than ironic then that, human civilisations have always claimed that they exist “for a reason”: whether it was religion, race supremacy, ecosystem … Continue reading A God for All Intentions, and A Civilisation for All the Wrong Reasons
Not more than a couple hundred metres from my apartment the most unexpected, incredible human superstructure unfolds: the perfectly preserved remnants of the ancient superhighway Via Egnatia, constructed by the Roman Republic between 146 and 120 BC. Yes, they already had superhighways back then. The ancient road begins at the very edge of the modern … Continue reading All Roads Lead Back to Rome: The Merry-Go-Round of Collapse
Humans never learned to genuinely collaborate. They became good at forming tight clans who mobilised their members against other clans, against the planet, and ultimately against all members of their own clan who had refused to “cooperate”. Efficient, outcome-based cooperation always requires a level of top-down control over the clan’s members, and this is why … Continue reading A New Vision on Cooperation: How Our Greatest Strength Became Our Weakness
What if globally declining fertility is not merely a socioeconomic phenomenon but one of the ways by which the ecosystem responds to an overpopulated human species? And what if genocide is yet another one of those ways? Last week I had the distinct honour of being asked to contribute my own commentary to a soon-to-be-published … Continue reading Is Genocide Nature’s Population Regulation?
The mechanization, automation, and aggressive cloning of human societies across the planet through colonialism - what historians otherwise refer to as “the industrial revolution” - was the chance this civilisation had been waiting for all along to supersize itself into a modern monstrosity of unprecedented, grotesque proportions. This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new … Continue reading The Death of Happiness: How Money, Growth and Industrialisation Made Humans Permanently Unsatisfied
