https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/ Essays on climate and overshoot, systems and power, the material world, and the mind under siege. An editorial studio at the end of the world. en Antarctic Sapiens https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-ice-remembers/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-ice-remembers/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Climate & Overshoot Ricky Lanusse A core of Antarctic ice is a ledger. Every year nobody acted is in there, sealed in air you can still breathe. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-hand-that-watches/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-hand-that-watches/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mind & Attention Ricky Lanusse Surveillance stopped being a thing done to you and became a thing you do, hourly, to yourself. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/antarctica-is-not-a-place/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/antarctica-is-not-a-place/ Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Climate & Overshoot Ricky Lanusse Nobody lives there, which is precisely why everyone gets to decide what it means. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-wolf-has-two-heads/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-wolf-has-two-heads/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT The Material World Martina H The extractive industry and the conservation industry increasingly share a head office, a vocabulary, and a set of consultants. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/i-can-see-through-your-bullshit/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/i-can-see-through-your-bullshit/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mind & Attention Ricky Lanusse Everyone believes they are the exception to the manipulation they can describe in detail. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/she-stopped-shining/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/she-stopped-shining/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT Climate & Overshoot Ricky Lanusse Two photographs of the same planet, fifty-four years apart, taken by people who were not trying to prove anything. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/nobody-voted-for-the-grid/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/nobody-voted-for-the-grid/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT Systems & Power Ricky Lanusse The most consequential infrastructure decisions of the century are being taken in rooms with no press and no public. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/your-attention-was-spent-before-you-woke-up/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/your-attention-was-spent-before-you-woke-up/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT Mind & Attention Martina H The budget is set overnight, by people who have measured you more carefully than you have. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/risk-is-what-rich-people-call-it/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/risk-is-what-rich-people-call-it/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT The Material World Ricky Lanusse The same flood is a risk in one hemisphere and a fact in the other. Only one of them gets insured. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-south-is-not-a-metaphor/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-south-is-not-a-metaphor/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT Systems & Power Ricky Lanusse It is a set of coordinates with mines in it, and the difference matters to the people standing on them. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/two-degrees-is-a-number/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/two-degrees-is-a-number/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT Climate & Overshoot Ricky Lanusse The threshold everyone negotiates over was chosen by an economist in 1975, and it was never a physical boundary. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/and-just-like-that-i-lost-interest/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/and-just-like-that-i-lost-interest/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT Mind & Attention Ricky Lanusse On the half-life of public attention to a catastrophe, which is now measured in days and used to be measured in years. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/only-money-counts/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/only-money-counts/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT Systems & Power Martina H Every measurement system eventually gets used as a scoreboard, and then it stops measuring. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/comfort-kills-ambition/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/comfort-kills-ambition/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT The Material World Ricky Lanusse The material conditions of a comfortable life are also, precisely, the conditions that make it unimaginable to change one. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/they-were-running-toward-it/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/they-were-running-toward-it/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:00:00 GMT Mind & Attention Martina H Every account of a crowd fleeing turns out, on inspection, to contain a great many people running the other way. https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-cactus-you-keep-hugging/ https://antarcticsapiens.com/library/the-cactus-you-keep-hugging/ Fri, 30 May 2025 09:00:00 GMT Climate & Overshoot Ricky Lanusse On the particular exhaustion of holding on to an arrangement that is visibly hurting you.