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Learning to Need Each Other

The family argument There is something that, once you see it, is hard to unsee: every major political argument of the last two centuries has been a disagreement about who should run the machine. Almost nobody in mainstream politics argues about the machine itself. Free-market capitalism says the market should

Learning to Need Each Other
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Departure In Place: An outline for a wildly ambitious book

I’ve been circling this book for a long time without quite realising it. It’s about collapse—yes—but not as apocalypse, not as spectacle, not even as a single event. Collapse here is understood as a long, uneven unravelling of systems that were never built to last, and

Marin County, California. A series of electric pylons receding across a marsh at dusk. A flock of birds taking flight over the distant hills.