Binary thinking, collapse and food systems

A white light switch on a white wall. Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash.

There’s a disturbing trend towards thinking of systemic collapse as being the inevitable and even necessary precursor to a more ideal future. It’s all coming down. Empires must fall. Only that way can we usher in better things. We must make good ruins, as Dougald Hine put it. Chris Smaje imagines cities emptying out in …

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