week 22 / 2026: fathers and sons
After the hourglass has been overturned, there is a period during which the sand must resettle itself before the flow of time can become regularised once again. We are living through just such a period.
resilience
week 17 / 2026: city and country
It’s not that there isn’t a problem with migration in Europe; it’s that the migration doing the damage is domestic rather than international. Plus: reframing the fear of death as a vital ecological dynamic, and refusing software the franchise of personhood.
week 13 / 2026: markets and casinos
Reading round-up: ecomodernism chooses a weird moment to frame climate mitigation as a casino, as prediction markets expose the moral hazard of literally gambling on disaster. Plus: the accusation of technophobia reveals as much about the accuser as about the accused, if not more so.
week 11 / 2026: pipelines and pylons
Reading round-up: the unfolding geopolitical sh*tshow has many dimensions, none of them nice, but in this edition of weeknotes I’m focussing on the infrastructural and sustainability futures—the consequences and, if we look further, the opportunities—of the conflict in the Gulf.
week 9 / 2026: intentions and inversions
Reading round-up: what the Citrini scenario tells us about the tremendous power (and danger) of fictional futures; why the best novel of the Culture might actually be the most overlooked of the set.
week 40 / 2025: the same river twice
This week, it seems I'm flagrantly mishandling Heraclitus to make a case for horizon-scanning...
week 34 / 2025: the machine stops
When life gives you lemons, make a lemonade-flavoured parable in place of the more considered content that you'd have written if you'd not lost the time to dealing with the lemons.