#roy scranton

[kgyst]

Gondolkoztál már azon, hogy mit fogsz csinálni, amikor fel kell adnod az eddigi életmódodat? - tldr

Ha tényleg itt van az elszabadult klímaváltozás korszaka, akkor lassan el kell fogadnunk azt is, hogy radikálisan átalakul az életünk. Jem Bendell szerint akár egy évtizeden belül: erről szól a mélyalkalmazkodás programja.

tl;dr

Többet fogok napozni

[maaarine]

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[gerrycanavan]

We Broke the World

We Broke the World

The only hope for human civilization lies in a radical, abrupt, and probably violent transformation of that very civilization. Failing this, we all face—all humanity—within our lifetimes and the lifetimes of our children—a catastrophic collapse of the biosphere upon which human life depends. This collapse is deeply entangled with but not the same as the ongoing transformation in the global…

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[ecstaticmagic]

By the time the event we seem to be waiting for happens, we will have already lost too much to be able to do much about it. By the time the moment of truth arrives, our fate will have already been sealed.

Roy Scranton

[scientificphilosopher]

The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today—it is unnatural for us to think that this way of life, this present moment, this order of things is not stable and permanent. Across the world today, our actions testify to our belief that we can go on like this forever, burning oil, poisoning the sea, killing off other species, pumping carbon into the air, ignoring the ominous silence of our coal mine canaries in favor of the unending robotic tweets of our new digital imaginarium. Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovation and endless energy, just as the reality of mortality shocks our casual faith in permanence.

Roy Scranton, 'Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene'

[maaarine]

MBTI & Writers (x) Roy Scranton: INTJ

“The challenging paradox, confusion, difficulty in our contemporary culture is that there is a sometimes absurd and self-destructive concern for what's happening now.

A sense that the past is disposable and that we don't need to think about the future in the long term.

That isn't what I mean by “ecstatic absorption in the now.” It's operating at this other level of consciousness.

What I’m talking about is a suspension of action, of being, of thought. It’s slowing into a kind of rigorous attention to the moment.”

[maaarine]

Roy Scranton + INTJ

“The Southern Reach Trilogy is a series of novels by the American author Jeff VanderMeer first published in 2014—Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance.

The trilogy takes its name from the secret agency that is central to the plot. In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director."

Sources: video, wiki/Southern_Reach_Trilogy. See also: tagged/alex-garland.

[kammartinez]

Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)

I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the