Anticipating the Aftermath.

Independent writing from Scott Smith about culture, technology, politics & the future.

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Aug 13
Bunker Mentality

Bunker Mentality

Sven Holm's spare vision of privilege at the end times.
3 min read
Jul 04
The Era of Risk-Maxxing

The Era of Risk-Maxxing

Power chooses chaos over caution in unstable times
8 min read
Jun 22
Doing Nothing Isn't a Strategy

Doing Nothing Isn't a Strategy

Strategic thinking shrinks as the future accelerates
4 min read
Apr 19
Frozen Light

Frozen Light

What The Golden Hour reveals about nostalgia and time
3 min read
Mar 31
Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn

Victorian Psycho and the aesthetics of controlled madness
3 min read
Dec 24
Nature Finds a Way

Nature Finds a Way

Olga Tokarczuk's slow-burn sanatorium horror and the return of the repressed feminine
3 min read
Oct 06
Always Fighting the Last Insurrection

Always Fighting the Last Insurrection

Why America keeps rehearsing its own collapse
4 min read
Apr 26
Apes on a Treadmill

Apes on a Treadmill

Nuclear War scenarios and the automation of destruction
4 min read
Apr 15
Temple of Shroom

Temple of Shroom

Empire dreams and psychedelic reality in Álvaro Enrigue's new book
4 min read
Apr 14
Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions

What Civil War gets right about American fracture
4 min read
Jan 21
How Did We Get Here?

How Did We Get Here?

The retreat to intimate media in a broken information age
3 min read
May 01
Archive: Playing the Future

Archive: Playing the Future

Board games, forecasting, and alternate histories
21 min read