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Real Review 17: Extinction Burst
Real Review 17: Extinction Burst
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An extinction burst occurs when bad behaviour intensifies before stopping. Undesirable qualities can become entrenched through positive reinforcement. But if the world changes and no longer provides us with the same feedback, we lose our minds: to the privileged, equality feels like persecution. Extinction bursts are forms of active denial; refusals to accept the past as gone, and desperate attempts to preserve the potential of an impossible reality. Today, modernity’s worst tendencies return intensified: patriarchy, racism, plutocracy, colonialism, exploitation, rentierism, genocide. Even attempts at redemption, restoration and stasis accelerate the decline.
Is the decline of the West irreversible? We interview YANCEY STRICKLER on creating alternative realities. RICHARD WENTWORTH walks and sends postcards. WENDY BROWN prefaces a new translation of Marx’s Capital. NOAM CHOMSKY is in conversation with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. FRANCIS FUKUYAMA is in conversation with JACK SELF, who reviews Bin Laden and the creative millennial. MADDY WEAVERS cancels out the noise. OLUWATOBILOBA AJAYI reviews black satire, while NEO-METABOLISM reviews The Limits to Growth.
Jack Self
Real Review, 2025
26 x 11 cm, 88 pages
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