Meaning of collapsitarianism | Babel Free

Definitions

Desire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.

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Examples

“To its adherents, collapsitarianism suggests a giddy liberation from hope, from futile shoring up of ailing economies like Detroit’s and the Sunbelt’s, from bailouts and stimulus plans and climate change and toxic-asset recovery.”

“The Southern Reach books imaginatively figure this contact. The beauty of the books is that they let the other side win. They offer a collapsitarianism in reverse.”

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