Future Ruins
A psychological, philosophical, and ecological guide. Collapse is no longer a distant scenario. It is a present condition. We feel it in the heatwaves, the biodiversity loss, the algorithmic churn, the political deadlocks, the microplastics in our bloodstreams. We see it in the cracks in every institutional narrative. In the
Future Ruins
Rethinking permanence, infrastructure, and the aesthetics of entropy Western culture has a permanence problem. We build as if things will last forever: empires, institutions, data centers, cities, identities, systems. We enshrine durability as a value, celebrate endurance as success, and design infrastructure to defy time. Cracks are failures. Decay is
Future Ruins
The Gen X/Y/Z disillusionment and what comes next. There was a time when the future was something you could believe in. You could grow up in the shadow of it—sleek, shining, inevitable. It promised progress. Clean lines. Space travel. Artificial intelligence that would make life easier. Economies
Future Ruins
Moving from critique to construction—without utopia We know how to critique capitalism. We know how to mock its absurdities, name its violences, track its failures, and document its extraction. From leftist theory to internet memes, from climate activism to labor movements, the tools of critique are sharp and abundant.
Future Ruins
On cultural salvage, memory, and moral triage Every civilization has its collapse story. But few ask what should be carried forward when collapse comes. In a moment when multiple systems—ecological, economic, technological, epistemic—are visibly fraying, the question becomes more than theoretical. It becomes ethical. Practical. Even spiritual. Because