2026-03-04, 1948h, On Collapse as a Regime of Constraint

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:48:00 +0000

I was reviewing my research today and realized that collapse, itself, is underdeveloped as a concept, given how important collapse is to current living, and my life specifically. There are two ways I use it: the common way of referring to climate collapse, the less common way of referring to a certain part of governance in cybernetic postliberalism, and then, as a specific sort of relational phenomenon. Which begs the question, are those actually one phenomenon in different places? If I think about what is true across all of them, it’s something about how constraint determines more than possibilities. Like, collapse is the regime where the constraints on what is possible are the primary driver of outcomes.

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2026-03-04, 1948h, On Collapse as a Regime of Constraint