• Growing the world we want is like the slow tending of a garden

• We must move, must grow, from apocalypse to dialectic

• An epoch approaching extinction while something new is straining to evolve

• LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

• If we only concentrate on putting out the blaze, we’ll eventually burn out

• Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up

• Hope is essential to our survival and our flourishing

• Rebecca Solnit on the politics of hope

• “The demons in your head are real and you can kill them”

• In dark times will there also be singing?

• The political economy of hopelessness

• Hatred, even of meanness, makes you ugly

• What if the night of your soul didn’t split you from yourself, others, and the world but, on the contrary, most intimately got you in touch with it?

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• The future’s not what it used to be

• The ideology of how ‘the world really is’

• One of my favourite closing scenes to a film

• on nihilism and hope