It is ironic but not at all surprising that, for a civilisation claiming to have taken care of its most basic needs a very long time ago, its demise will come down to the one, most basic need common to all organisms: food. Civilisations may survive without technology or organised society, but they cannot … Continue reading Food, Life and Sanity: the Triple Disappearing Act
This civilisation has learned to survive by extraction, exploitation and extinction. It is the teenager walking up to the fridge, taking whatever they need without ever wondering who went grocery shopping, how much it cost, and who paid the electric bill. This lazy formula of existence has been so easy and straightforward, so successful and … Continue reading The Civilisational Lie
Follow the link to listen to my talk with the brilliant Alex Smith from Radio Ecoshock https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/01/spectacle-necrocapitalism-methane.html
All civilisations eventually reach the point where they fail to keep track of all that they have created. They become blind to their past, cut off from any memory of their beginnings, like traumatised orphans who never met their real parents or, smartphone users with no knowledge of how a smartphone is made, or what … Continue reading A New Spiritual Geography: The Revenge of The Landfills
This appeared this morning on Amazon. Thank you! George Tsakraklides is a brilliant author who synthesizes a great depth of knowledge across a variety of disciplines in his gripping, resonant, and highly pertinent assessment of our self-contradictory ouroboros we call capitalistic society. Tsakraklides offers us new language with which we can apprehend this terrifying and … Continue reading Book Review for In The Grip
Our story, the story of Earth, couldn’t possibly be more surreal and miraculous at the same time. Even the smartest team of human designers would almost certainly have failed to imagine, not least create, our world from scratch - even if they had access to all the tools and elements in the periodic table. How … Continue reading Surreal Clockwork
In our quest for immortality, we have almost sought to convince ourselves that we are not from Earth, therefore not mortal. The industrial revolution, the look and feel of our modern cities, our cars, our houses, have all served to try and convince us that we are not even related to everything else that lives … Continue reading Ashamed Of Our Roots
But of course, none of our politicians have the guts to tell us that, if emissions were to decrease at the rate they need to, the government would need to take our toys away. Instead, they promise us that we can continue to live wastefully, while they put up some wind turbines to "cancel it … Continue reading The Inconvenient Message of Downsizing
Those following the more pragmatic conversations on the topic know that, if there ever was a chance of keeping this planet habitable, it wouldn't be through solar panels and electric vehicles. These technologies would come at an incredible carbon and ecological cost, if they were ever to be deployed at the massive scale required to … Continue reading The Fairy Tale Is Over
Like with any commercial zoo, the visitors' brochure always shows happy animals delightfully roaming about in their confined, carefully curated cages, occasionally interacting gleefully with both the staff and the public. They are carefully photoshopped to look like animals who have chosen their "stardom": they love the attention and the spotlight, because all they ever … Continue reading Living and Dying in the Consumatron Zoo
George Tsakraklides 