Catastrophe, or the labour of mourning the familiar
Frances Grimshaw
"I think I'll miss the world as I know it"
Catastrophe, or the labour of mourning the familiar
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 we love. We need to remember our love for the Earth and, inevitably, this is to open ourselves to grief."
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 both their micro-environment and planet."
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 what will be important in this radically different world?"
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 together and act so quickly."
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 in the 20th century), one that has already been formed, linked through and by the struggles of First Nations and other colonised peoples."
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 to my time at the borders of Europe, any sense of linearity felt like a ruse."
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 it’s the growing understanding that strengthening and expanding our community connections as we go forward into a less certain future is beyond imperative. We are going to need each other as we face crises, whatever that may look like."
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 and self-regulated logging industry, vast interconnected ecosystems have been reduced to lines on screens—drawn up by government bureaucrats in air conditioned offices under fluorescent lights."
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 predicament and highlighting what we believe to be viable responses. Our agency to alter the world for the better is made possible in these stories."
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 almost forgotten. Sooner or later, they all transformed, not in some cataclysmic mass human-extinction-event, but through a fundamental shift into new social organisms."
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 not enjoy the moments of resistance, liberation (even if exceedingly short), re-enchantment and love that make up our struggles right now for the fullness they bring into our lives?"
capital grey
kba
"the fucking navy dont own profound blue"
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 defecation, a space of greenwashing enables the continued destruction of the biosphere. Knowing how spaces help greenwashing will allow eco-minded people to properly interrogate claims of sustainability and how they are being influenced.”
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 of change.”