Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation and Ecology 

RU-vid's algorithm may suck burning garbage piles, but it's like treasure hunting. It's always nice striking youtube gold on my break at work.

you son of a gun. clicked in from twitter and the first thing I see is your quote from the book I have not been able to pick up and finish reading for 5 months. It is a good book! Why can I not finish it!

This was an excellent, wonderfully coherent combination of the excellent Vandermeer novels with their implications for human relations and climate. Looking forward to exploring more of this channel :)

'The possibility of hope depends not on a greater knowledge of the facts but on imaginative capacity to think of what may be possible in the wake of annihilation' - so BEAUTIFULLY put. Loved the way you used the power of storytelling to convey your message!

Another brilliant video, Jon!! Goddamn, I have chills!

Great video. My favorite kind of cultural critiques take real life events and find them in works of art. Lawrence Weschler did this with the Bosnian war and paintings by Vermeer and it always gives me a thrill when other people do it. Bravo, friendo, this was wonderful.

love ur videos

Vandermeer, Mieville, Chiang, Butler and Ligotti have inspired my writing style and voice enough to develop my own new weird ecofiction. I hope all those writers get more and more attention over the years.

I did once have a go at creating a hyperobject (in the naive sense of something like a hypercube). But I soon found it becoming very complex. And even in the simplest form, I couldn't even say what equation of a curve I was using without getting into some pretty complicated maths (that may have in the end required something like the Reimann Hypothesis to prove a relationship was using I was true or not). One layer of the object itself was a sphere made of 60 spirals that had the illusion of a false perspective - making it appear as though the flat surface was three dimensional and infinitely regressive. But inside that sphere was other spheres of progressively smaller and smaller size, again that became infinitely regressive - with each of these spheres having their spirals intersecting with spirals on other spheres at difference points depending on how you looked at it. The whole thing was a complete mirage for the eyes to look at. But it was not perfect, and with more layers the effect broke down because of inaccuracies. But what was cool about it in concept was that you could trace any path you wanted because each curve was connected to other curves by tangents without any sharp breaks - so for all intense and purposes there was only ever one line, but this line could traverse multiple dimensions and cover all possible paths, which would be infinitely so and fill all available space at the very centre of the object itself.

loved this one (or at least as much as one can love a video about the world "being killed") i always want to make some clever point in these comments to let you know I, too, am an intellectual. But I'm struggling to find one, maybe I'll chew on it and come back. it can be easy to get lost in the doom spiral surrounding these topics and there is no clear answer, but its always good to see it from a new perspective.

Based off the citations list, this should be great.

I was doing a thesis on young adult dystopian lit, a future without a future, and the struggle between the Happy Ending With 2.4 Children and the dystopian end of despair, and my supervisors couldn't see why there is a kind of fascist inertia in that pressure on young adults, born well after the knowledge of how the capitalicene will kill us all, to secure an essentialist future.

debates between the 'left' and 'right': - 'left': "material beliefs are 'aesthetic'" 'right': "material beliefs are 'ascetic'" everyone else: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Just ridiculously good.

jesus i knew about centralia but i never knew the whole story

I struggle a lot with climate despair... thank you for this. It's validating and even a little hopeful.

The existential dread from the first half almost had me clicking off the video. Glad I stayed around. My brother suggested your channel and I gotta say this video was definitely worth watching. Great Video Keep up the good work!

Starts with Anna Tsing quote... this is gonna be good 🔥

This was really, really good. Glad to see you're back 🔥✊🌱