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?
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
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 world keeps going about its daily business like a zombie pretending it hasn’t burned out yet. But as it whispers to itself through the flames “this is fine”, the corrosive fumes of an industrial civilisation undergoing autophagy become potent hallucinogens. “This is fine” soon becomes “this is normal”. Whoever thought, one could get so tripped out on … Continue reading The Long Flatline: In a Selfish Society, do “Systems” Actually Exist?
Whenever there is a collapse, society has two choices: in the first scenario, powerful individuals grab as big a slice as they can from a rapidly diminishing pie and make a run for it in their golden parachutes. In the second scenario, societies come together and try to distribute the pie as calmly, fairly, and … Continue reading The Collapse Hierarchy of Needs
RELEASING: 27 May 2026 KINDLE PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW One of the biggest misconceptions about collapse is that it only concerns the future or present, when in fact, human history is defined as much by its periods of growth as it is by a long list of frequent, spectacular collapse events. Whilst the symptoms of collapse … Continue reading BOOK LAUNCH: The Biology of Collapse
Every oligarch is a tumour growing at the expense of surrounding healthy tissue: the humans and other organisms making up the ecosystem. While normal cells follow a strict path of growth for only a set number of generations, tumour cells never stop multiplying, hoarding resources in the process. This is why capitalism is inherently carcinogenic: … Continue reading The Dogma of the Cancer Cell
