Real Existing Degrowth - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Giorgos Kallis, Angelos Varvarousis

Contributors Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, e-flux Architecture, Donatella Gasparro, Angelos Varvarousis, Marula Tsagkari, David E. Gilbert, Giorgos Kallis, Julia Grosinger, Lucía Muñoz Sueiro, and more…

Degrowth is often imagined as a call to reduce current society’s throughput, a political slogan, or a programmatic horizon comprising policy roadmaps, models of how the global economy can function otherwise, and analyses of the politics that can bring us there. Much of its language therefore lives in the future tense. Yet degrowth is not an abstract idea, a future potential. It is a very real material, spatial, and social condition, one that exists in the present.

Real Existing Degrowth is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the RED (Real Existing Degrowth) collective.

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8 essays

Notes from a Post-Flood Feast

Feroz Mohamed Khan

Two days into the power outage caused by Hurricane Ida’s landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2021—“Katrina’s sweet sixteen,” as my comrades would say, all bravado and gallows humor before the heat rashes set in—I was grilling. And grilling.

Reclaiming Rootedness

Lucía Muñoz Sueiro

Every afternoon in my grandparents’ village, a small (and shrinking) town of around 1,000 inhabitants in the province of León, Spain, twenty-eight-year-old Diego rides his bicycle down toward the wine cellars.

Where Maps Fall Silent

Julia Grosinger

Landscapes materialize emotions, memories, and attachments. They are maps of how societies bind themselves to their surroundings. But these affective threads strain against the economic forces that orchestrate today’s territories.

The Gift of Degrowth

Giorgos Kallis

Gifts instill trust, connect people, and prevent humanity from falling into a state of war of all against all. If the newcomers to your shore do not accept your tribe’s gift, the spears come out.

Dark Degrowth: On Insurgence, Resurgence, and Going Dark

David E. Gilbert

Now more than ever, as authoritarianism and ecological crises threaten to engulf the planet, a luddite revival must be considered: a going dark in manifold ways and meanings.

Ikaria’s Path to Frugal Abundance

Angelos Varvarousis and Marula Tsagkari

When one leaves behind the metropolitan glitter of Mykonos and moves east, it soon becomes clear that one is entering another world.

News From Somewhere

Donatella Gasparro

As our lives become ever more computed, and every bit of both reality and virtuality is pushed into commodification and sold at inflated market prices, some forgotten corners of Europe’s post-industrialscapes keep on eluding statistics.

Editorial: In the Present Tense

Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, and e-flux Architecture

Real Existing Degrowth is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the RED (Real Existing Degrowth) collective.

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Architecture, Community, Geography

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Feroz Mohamed Khan Notes from a Post-Flood Feast
Lucía Muñoz Sueiro Reclaiming Rootedness
Julia Grosinger Where Maps Fall Silent
Giorgos Kallis The Gift of Degrowth
David E. Gilbert Dark Degrowth: On Insurgence, Resurgence, and Going Dark
Angelos Varvarousis and Marula Tsagkari Ikaria’s Path to Frugal Abundance
Donatella Gasparro News From Somewhere
Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis and e-flux Architecture Editorial: In the Present Tense

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