Catastrophe, or the labour of mourning the familiar
Frances Grimshaw“I think I’ll miss the world as I know it”
Turning Towards Grief
Rahme Etai“When we feel grief and pain for the land this is a sign of our love for Earth. We need to be in love with Land to be able to take action, to be able to take risks. We put our life on the line for that which we love. We sacrifice for that which…
Rubble and Relationship: Rediscovering Mutuality in the Midst of Collapse
Kim Croxford“Uncovering this “pattern to the universe,” by re-learning how to live in relationship with the earth’s natural processes, may just be the work of our lives in these most challenging of times.”
Our Futures as Guided by the Embodied History of Trees
Claire Waddell-Wood“Trees encourage us to pause from the unrelenting rush of the present to fix our futures. They show us ways we can reflect on the expansive histories that have made us what we are. And importantly, trees express how individual beings, as part of highly interconnected communities, can hold immense influence over the future of…
Encountering the Spectre of Collapse: Bringing Marxism and Gaelic Animism into Constellation
Colm McNaughton“When cultures and economies are stuck and caught-in-between the living and the dead, precisely what a ghost is, the imminent danger is not that monsters take form and reveal themselves as a response to what is happening, but rather that individuals and collectives avoid facing what is actually happening. By proposing that the very notion…
Aussiemandias: Building for Collapse
Enzo Lara-Hamilton“Pressing global ecological crises bring us ever closer to rapid destabilisation and decline; biodiversity loss, pollution, anthropogenic climate change to name a few. These crises continue to damage complex resource supply chains and existing urban environments globally, exacerbated by geopolitical and economic instability. We seem to continually ask ourselves, what is going to happen, and…
You the restless reveller
Maia Elesi“you the restless reveller…”
Degrowth: Mitigating and Preparing for Ecological Destruction
Alice Seedling“We need to redefine our relationship to each other. We need to move away from impersonal transactions that hide the destruction of profitdriven global supply chains, and move towards relationships that support us to meet our needs in ways that benefit the environment around us. Relationships that are place-based, responsible and reciprocal.”
More than Water
By Lisabel“The houses were rotting but the neighbourhoods were alive with people offering help in whatever way they could. Cash had never been so rare, yet suddenly it was being handed out by strangers in the street. Cash, along with plastic water bottles, cigarettes, sandwiches, bandaids, beers, gumboots and gloves. I’d never seen my community come…
The Great End
Tamala Shelton“You called it the great end…”
Against Imperial Continuity? Linking Amazigh Struggles
Scheherazade Bloul“As imperial logics and mechanisms continue to impose collapse, now being felt more strongly ‘back home’, our response shouldn’t be to follow the liberal urge to stabilise the centres of imperialism. Rather, we should delink from it and organise ourselves against the centre. For example, we can turn to the ideas of internationalism (we did…
Collapse upon the border
Shiv Gill“If movements aren’t building, are they degrading? Collapsing? But regression doesn’t sit quite right either because it also seems to fill a need to fix paths of linearity. Maybe none of our struggles follow the logic of forward and backwards? Within the fractured memories from so-called Australia that I reached for to give greater context…
Till the Last Drop
Manic Seeds Media“Seeing what is being done to the land tends to provide fuel for the fight, whether it be the everlasting rage and grief let loose by seeing that giant hole in the ground, or the inspiration given by those that stay long term to fight it out with these psychopathic companies. Perhaps most of all…
Fragmented we Fall
Alice Hardinge“Imagined, invisible, human-induced geographies have the power to disconnect and disintegrate the visceral ecosystems of physical reality. These are the systems that hold all life. The looming extinction of Mountain Ash Forests, listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a collapsing ecosystem, are a pertinent example of this. Through the state owned…
Stories and Resistance in the Age of Crises
Benjamin Gready“The fight is to undermine this hegemony, prevent other harmful narratives from expanding, and perpetuate our story—one that constructs the conditions for our collective liberation. If we don’t, somebody else will tell theirs, and they will set the parameters of possibility. Our story of an event or process contains the prospect of adequately recognising our…
After the End of the World
Morgan Heenan“Yet the dominant culture imagines this way of living—capitalism, modernity, industrial society, however we might think about it—not only as necessary, but as stable. This was presumably an illusion shared by the Indus Valley civilisation, the Mesopotamians, the ancient Egyptians, the Olmec and Maya civilisations of Mesoamerica—there’s no shortage of once-prolific societies which are now…
To Lola Olufemi
Shiv Gill“Adherence to hope within our political imaginations is often posited in contrast to a brutalist, ugly utilitarianism. This understanding seems upside-down to me because too often, it is precisely these futures filled with hope that are envisioned as being at the end of a long, arduous road that must be steadfastly followed. Instead, can we…
capital grey
kba“the fucking navy dont own profound blue and the royals dont get blue either if they must have a colour let it be that dark red that leaks from their necks as the people remove their rank heads from their useless bodies”
Everyday Spaces of Greenwashing
Enzo Lara-Hamilton“Space is produced, but by and for whom? Spaces of our everyday existence are largely constructed to increased consumption and profit. If so, the materials, signage, and spatial organisation will be produced, now changing just enough to appear sustainable. Spaces are not apolitical. Just as a wall enables segregation, or absence of a public toilet enables street…
Building Utopia on the Climate Frontlines
Andy Paine“Utopias of all kinds are reminders that the brick-and-mortar world we live in is not all that exists. Visions of the future that inspire us to act are just as real as the “real world”. The community at Binbee planted a seed in its many participants that will perhaps grow into their own inspiring visions…
Wilding as a Decolonial Future for (Dis)topia Australis
Yin Paradies“Wilding is a radical shift away from the tameness of civilisation and bumbling obliviousness, towards listening with our eyes and watching with our ears, embracing our promiscuous animal essence, leaping headfirst into the carnal palpable flow of life, living within natural lore, being stilled, silenced and seized, cracking open to feel everything, bathing in the…
