Seven (Additional) Characters in Search of an Apocalypse
[These 7 characters, as well as the original 12, are excerpts from I Want a Better Catastrophe (forthcoming 2019-ish). 12 Characters is now also a series of interactive conversations touring England and Wales.] SEVEN (ADDITIONAL) CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN APOCALYPSE We can fix this. We are facing the greatest challenge in the history of humanity. In a few short...
Twelve Characters in Search of an Apocalypse
[originally published in: Dark Mountain Issue 11 (Spring 2017)] TWELVE CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN APOCALYPSE I did the math I did the math. But I wish I hadn’t. It was right after Hurricane Sandy. Over a week-long binge I read everything I could find. I work downtown, you see. And they’d lost power, but uptown...
I WANT A BETTER CATASTROPHE
I WANT A BETTER CATASTROPHE: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor (An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers) Available NOW at: BookShop | Amazon | Goodreads Read samples of the book, catch the tour, join the conversation, and more at: bettercatastrophe.com. In this grave and irreverent philosophical manual, Andrew...
Don’t Wait for the Revolution—Live It
[originally published in: Yes Magazine, Issue 66, Summer 2013] We can’t create a better world if we haven’t yet imagined it. How much better then, if we are able to touch such a world, experience it directly, even live in it—if only to a partial degree and for a brief moment. This is the idea...
BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE: A Toolbox for Revolution
Puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of troublemakers. Use it to instigate anything from a flashmob to a revolution.
PILGRIMAGE TO NOWHERE
PILGRIMAGE TO NOWHERE Facing a middle-aged funk, Andrew Boyd, author of the underground spiritual classic, Daily Afflictions, sets off around the world, spoiling for a run-in with the Divine. But his quest across the heartlands of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity runs smack into the modern pilgrim’s dilemma: How can you lose yourself—never mind find yourself—when...
TRUTH IS A VIRUS: Meme Warfare and the Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)
TRUTH IS A VIRUS: Meme Warfare and the Billionaires for Bush (or Gore) Andrew Boyd [first published in: Cultural Resistance, Ed. Steven Duncombe, Verso, April 2002] “Truth is a Virus.” When I first saw this phrase, defiantly spray-painted on the walls of a suburban high-school, it thrilled me. So what if it was only a...
Why I love and hate Adbusters!
Why I love and hate Adbusters! I love Adbusters! I hate Adbusters! I love Adbusters! I hate Adbusters! Turning the pages of the glossy Vancouver quarterly, I’m like an obsessed teenager pulling petals out of a flower. I love Adbusters! I hate Adbusters! I love how they take the sly, slick, seductive genius of Madison...
THE MANUFACTURE OF DISSENT: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas
THE MANUFACTURE OF DISSENT: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas by Andrew Boyd and Stephen Duncombe Originally published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest – Volume 1, Issue 3, which later became the basis for Steve’s (excellent) book, Dream. Scholars take note: the concept of an “Ethical Spectacle” was thunked up by both...
Save Western Civilization now! Ask me how.
Not long ago, Western Civilization was at an impasse, so I wrote a book to move us forward. I didn't want to write it but I couldn't help myself. Let me explain...
MISADVENTURES IN MASCULINITY: Trying to Be a Decent Dude in a Toxic Time
Feminism has upended gender-roles. Economic shifts are displacing men as primary breadwinners. The “crisis of masculinity” is very real, but neither Left nor Right has the answer. Donald Trump and Andrew Tate tell us the only way to be a “real man” is to shut off our feelings and dominate others, while the overly woke...
DAILY AFFLICTIONS: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
A dark, twisted existential manifesto posing as a book of daily inspiration.
