We are crashing out.

Economies are resting upon increasingly fragile foundations. The landscape of geopolitical power is no longer unipolar. Global ecosystems have lost their equilibrium. There are more empty houses than houseless people. The old rules which brought us to this present polycrisis are beginning to dissolve.
To crash is to suddenly reconcile with an opposing condition. Internal contradictions reach an inflection point. The pressure is either spent, or re-directed. The planet has limits, sovereignty has limits, the psyche has limits—what happens when they fail?
This issue invited meditations on how crashes register across scales; we asked how collapse might be productive, how exhaustion may generate knowledge, and how rupture could become a condition for change. We considered this issue to be a site for fragments, interruptions, and unfinished thoughts. We received a breadth of submissions, ranging from pop cultural commentary, to a deconstruction of the housing market, to a personal anecdote about sleepily slicing a sliver of finger.

A crash out is cathartic. It is the destruction of the vestiges of that which came before, allowing for recollection and the reimagining of possible futures. When navigating the decline of our inherited hegemonic order, we ask you, our dear reader: how do you CRASH OUT?

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Cole, Eli, & Ethan