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Bookmark Resource scarcity not a doomsday scenario
At the moment, there is an abundance of scarcity. Companies complain that there are shortages of semiconductors, lumber, steel, plastics, chemicals, and other inputs and raw materials. The pandemic disrupted many…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’
The phrase Jay Inslee used was “permanent emergency.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper
Barrett Moore had ordered 2 million N95 masks, held enough freeze-dried food to feed families hiding from global Armageddon for decades, owned a small arsenal of guns, and fortified a pole…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Podcast Cache Atomic Hobo: Interview with director of THREADS, Mick Jackson
I phoned Mick Jackson in LA to discuss THREADS. We also talked about A Guide To Armageddon, and The Day After, plus liquorice and all manner of nuclear horror.

May 26 2021, 9:12am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | This Is Not the End of the World and You…
The prepper vision of the world is bleak and ruthless. Something better is happening now.

June 30 2020, 10:13am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto – Indigenous Action Media
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism? We live the future of a past that is not our own. It is a history…

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | This Is Not the End of the World and You…
The prepper vision of the world is bleak and ruthless. Something better is happening now.

June 3 2020, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life
Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments
Bookmark The Arrogance of the Anthropocene - The Atlantic
On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told.

August 17 2019, 8:05am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…
What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime? - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn1 By now, dystopia may have become a luxury genre. Indulging in miserable future scenarios is not something everyone…

April 10 2018, 12:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand…
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific…

March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…
Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark How to face the ecocide (Down the Dark Mountain) — High Country…
In the winter of 2013, I drove up California’s Central Valley to Stockton, to interview Cambodian parents who’d lost children in one of the nation’s many mass school shootings.

July 31 2017, 5:04am | Comments
Bookmark The Mythic Function of the Zombie Apocalypse - disinformation
From Modern Mythology: Our standard movie monsters deviate from their early folkloric roots in a number of major ways, but the most notable might be the general move from bewitchment to…

June 26 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been…
The end of the world is a growth industry. You can almost feel Armageddon in the air: from survivalist and ‘prepper’ websites (survivopedia.com, doomandbloom.net, prepforshtf.

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark Epochal Aesthetics: Affectual Infrastructures of the Anthropocene - e-flux Architecture - e-flux
The Anthropocene renders visible new architectures of time and matter, both sedimenting existing genealogies of global-world-space and radically reorganizing an imagination of the scope and material duration of what the human…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life
Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

December 14 2016, 9:56am | Comments
Additivism Exhibition: The World Without Us. Narratives on the age of...

October 26 2016, 10:12am | Comments
Bookmark Abandoned shops, discarded laundry and traffic lights signalling to empty streets: Eerie…
More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned. Since…

July 12 2016, 1:01pm | Comments
Bookmark Doomsday Preppers Are Planning to 3D Print Their Way Through the Apocalypse…
Jason Ray thinks the culture of “disaster prepping” is misunderstood.

June 18 2016, 7:38am | Comments
Metafilter A few seconds closer to Midnight? Today The Doomsday Clock will have its time recalibrated. In 2015 the scientists set the hands to 23.57 - "due to climate change, the modernization of nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, and the problem of nuclear waste." Is the apocalypse…

January 26 2016, 6:31am | Comments
Bookmark To Survive, We Must Go Extinct - Apocalyptic Terrorism and Transhumanism -…
I believe that the present century is the most precarious in which humanity has ever lived. On the one hand, certain emerging technologies are placing an ever-greater amount of power in…

November 21 2015, 6:16am | Comments
Bookmark Exclusive: The Pentagon Has a Plan to Stop the Zombie Apocalypse. Seriously.…
The U.S. military has always been the one place in government with a plan, forever in preparation mode and ready to yank a blueprint off the shelf for almost any contingency.…

November 7 2015, 9:06am | Comments
Bookmark Our weird robot apocalypse: How paper clips could bring about the end…
If you dread a robot revolt, stop worrying about killer computers, and start worrying about ... paper clips? Nick Bostrom is explaining to me how superintelligent AIs could destroy the human…

August 18 2014, 5:12pm | Comments
Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…
Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments
Bookmark John Gray on Critiques of Utopia and Apocalypse
There are those who say that utopian projects, while they can never be achieved, are valuable because they spur human advance. That’s not my view. My view is that the attempt…

March 28 2012, 1:43am | Comments
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Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

November 29 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Tumblr The First Zombie-Proof House

May 14 2011, 4:48am | Comments
Bookmark Manual for Civilization
We have confidence in our science-based civilization and think it has tenure. In so doing, I think we fail to distinguish between the life-span of civilizations and that of our species.…

April 7 2010, 6:26am | Comments

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