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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth SandiferThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiIn the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerStarry Speculative Corpse by Eugene ThackerFanged Noumena by Nick Land
The Speculative Turn
36 books — 19 voters
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiCollapse by Juan Pablo QuiñonezLimits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
Collapsology — Non-fiction
40 books — 34 voters

Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodThe Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction
469 books — 743 voters
Ishmael by Daniel QuinnParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinBlack-out by Marc ElsbergThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Collapsology — Fiction
5 books — 1 voter

Comment tout peut s'effondrer  by Pablo ServigneUne autre fin du monde est possible by Pablo ServignePetit manuel de résistance contemporaine by Cyril DionDormez tranquilles jusqu’en 2100 by Jean-Marc JancoviciVers la sobriété heureuse by Pierre Rabhi
Effondrement et Résilience
37 books — 4 voters

Peter Wessel Zapffe
Since a large part of our best biological talents are superfluous in the modern, complicated technological game we play with the environment, we are victims of increasing spiritual unemployment. The value of technological advances for human life must therefore be evaluated according to their ability to afford us increasing spiritual activity—without at the same time destroying the nature that gives us the opportunity to practice these activities. The limits of proper technological development ar ...more
Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

Jonathan Harnisch
still, he smiles — faintly, knowingly — because even here, inside the quiet machinery of suffering, there’s a kind of grace. he exists in that impossible balance between clarity and collapse — wholly sane, yet living inside what can only be called the twilight zone of the human condition.
Jonathan Harnisch, Living Colorful Beauty

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