miércoles, 21 de enero de 2026

Colapso y Hundimiento (Social, Político, Económico)

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Collapse  (social, political, economic)

 

 

 

Abate, Tom. "Climate and the Collapse of Civilization." BioScience 44 (1994): 516-19.

Cochet, Yves. (Former French Minister of Environment and European MP, catastrophist collapsologist). Devant l'effondrement: essai de collapsologie. 2019.

Dartnell, Lewis. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. London: Bodley Head, 2014. Amazon page:*

         http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/ref=pe_409441_47265951_pe_row1_b1/

         2014

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: Norton, 1997.

_____. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

_____. Colapso. Barcelona: Random House Mondadori, 2006.

García Landa, José Ángel. La Peste Escarlata y la epidemiología evolutiva." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 21 May 2009.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2009/05/la-peste-escarlata-y-la-epidemiologia.html

         2009

_____. "'La Peste Escarlata' y la epidemiología evolutiva." Social Science Research Network 8 June 2015.*

https://ssrn.com/abstract=2615491

2015

_____. "'La Peste Escarlata' y la epidemiología evolutiva." En García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 junio 2015.*

http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/la-peste-escarlata-y-la-epidemiologia.html

2015

_____.''La Peste Escarlata' y la epidemiología evolutiva." Academia 4 enero 2017.*

http://www.academia.edu/30728096/

2016

_____. "'La Peste Escarlata' y la epidemiología evolutiva." ResearchGate 5 enero 2017.*

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312070047

2017

_____. "'La Peste Escarlata' y la epidemiología evolutiva." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 June 2015.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/la-peste-escarlata-y-la-epidemiologia.html

         2015

_____. "What Remains Unclear." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 May 2012.* (David Christian, Last man, civilization, Homo sapiens, future, Sustainability, Olduvai theory).

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/what-remains-unclear.html

         2012 DISCONTINUED 2025 – Online at the Internet Archive.*

         https://web.archive.org/web/20250124214624/https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-remains-unclear.html

         2025

_____. "'What Remains Unclear' (Lo que no está claro): Colapso o Sostenimiento." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 15 Dec. 2022, 20 Jan. 2025.*

         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/WhatRemainsUnclear.html

         2022

         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/whatremainsunclear.pdf

         2025

_____. "Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimiento (What Remains Unclear: Collapse or Sustainability) (May 16, 2012)." SSRN 24 March 2025.*

https://ssrn.com/abstract=5110508  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110508

         2025

         Development Economics eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Dev-Econ-Agriculture-Nat-Res-Enviro.html

         2025

         Economic Growth eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/economic-growth.html

         2025

         Global Commodity Issues eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Global-Commodity-Issues.html

         2025

         Other Economics Research eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Other-Economics-Research.html

         2025

         Macroeconomics: Aggregative Models eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Aggregative-Models.html

         2025

         Banking, Finance, Economy & Trade eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Oikonomia-Banking-Finance-Economy-Trade.html

         2025

         History of Science & Environment eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Amet-Environmental-History-Rev.html

         2025

         Sustainability & Economics eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Sustainability-Economics.html

         2025

         Sustainable Technology eJournal 24 March 2025.*

         https://www.ssrn.com/link/Sustainable-Technology.html

         2024

_____. "Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimiento." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 March 2025.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/03/lo-que-no-esta-claro-colapso-o.html

         2025 DISCONTINUED – Online at the Internet Archive.*

         https://web.archive.org/web/20250325134038/https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/03/lo-que-no-esta-claro-colapso-o.html

         2025

_____. "Collapse." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 14 July 2012.* (Jared Diamond)

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/07/collapse.html

         2012

García Penas, Álvaro, and Eustoquio Molina. "Cambio climático y colapso de civilizaciones." Naturaleza Aragonesa  34 (2017). Online at Academia 15 Dec. 2017.*

         https://www.academia.edu/35434912/

         2017

Harris, Marvin. "¿Se repitió la historia?" In Harris, Nuestra especie. 3rd. ed. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2011. 462-67.*

Jiménez Espejo, Francisco, and José Soto Chica. El dios incomprendido: El desafío del clima en la historia de la Humanidad. Desperta Ferro, 2025.

Jorion, Paul.  À quoi bon penser à l'heure du grand collapse? Conversation with Franck Cormerais et Jacques Athanase Gilbert. paris: Fayard, 2017.

Morin, Edgar. Vers l'abîme? (Carnets). Paris: L'Herne, 2007.

El Nacional. "Eudald Carbonell: El Covid-19, el último aviso antes de nuestro colapso como especie." El Nacional 21 March 2020.*

https://www.elnacional.cat/es/sociedad/coronavirus-eudald-carbonell-ultimo-aviso_483255_102_amp.html

         2020

Scranton, Roy. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. El colapso de Rusia. Trans. César Vidal. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, c. 2000.

Spinney, Laura. "'Humans Weren't Always Here. We Could Disappear': Meet the Collapsologists." The Guardian 11 Oct. 2020.*

         https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/11/humans-werent-always-here-we-could-disappear-meet-the-collapsologists

         2020

Tainter, J. A. The Collapse of Complex Societies: New Studies in Archaeology. 1988.

Wade, Lizzie. Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures. Harper, 2025.

Webb, David. The Great Taking. (Investors; collapse; alarmism, property, white collar crime, Bubbles, Banks, Savings).

Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. St. Martin's Press, 2007.

_____. "Alan Weisman: 'Si no reducimos la población, viviremos una tragedia'." Vozpópuli (Next) 8 April 2014.*

http://vozpopuli.com/next/41632-alan-weisman-si-no-reducimos-la-poblacion-viviremos-una-tragedia

         2014

Weiss, H. et al. "The Genesis and Collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization." Science 261 (1993): 995-1004.

Weiss, H., and R. S. Bradley. "What Drives Societal Collapse?" Science 291 (2001): 609-10.

"When Will the World Collapse?" Ibercampus 20 March 2014.*

         http://www.ibercampus.eu/when-will-the-world-collapse-1631.htm

         2014

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

 

 

Bragg, Melvyn, et al. "The Bronze Age Collapse." BBC 4 16 June 2016.*

         http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh#play

         2016

Wade, Lizzie. "Lizzie Wade: Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures." Audio interview with Gene-George Earle. New Books Network 4 Aug. 2025.*

https://newbooksnetwork.com/apocalypse

         2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blogs

 

 

 

The Poetry of Predicament. YouTube (The Poetry of Predicament).* (Channel on global crisis and collapse).

         https://www.youtube.com/@thepoetryofpredicament2233

         2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Films

 

Civilization Lost. H2 documentary. YouTube

         http://youtu.be/etmhB2ZwqJs

         2014

_____. Civilization Lost.  In García Landa, Vanity Fea 18 May 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/civilization-lost.html

         2014

 

Collapse. Documentary film. Dir. Chris Smith. Presenting Michael Ruppert's theory of collapse. YouTube

         http://youtu.be/IVd-zAXACrU

         2014

         (Spanish subtitles):

         http://youtu.be/LUmWdL3F7z0

         2014

_____. Collapse. Dir. Chris Smith. 2009. YouTube (Ronny Schliegel) 13 Sept. 2021.*

         https://youtu.be/ihobiCxOx0k

         2024

 

Earth 2100. Online at YouTube (whatcanyouhave) 20 April 2012.* (With Jared Diamond et al.).

         http://youtu.be/LUWyDWEXH8U

         2014

 

Noah. Dir. Darren Aronofsky. Cast: Russell Crowe, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins. USA: Protozoa, 2014.*

 

Rapa Nui. Dir. Kevin Reynolds. Written by Kevin Reynolds and Tim Rose Price. Prod. Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson, Barrie M. Osborne et al. 1994. Online at YouTube (afeiss)

         http://youtu.be/R-tgpzixe3M

         2012

 

 

 

 

Internet resources

 

 

 

YouTube (Fall of Civilizations). (Paul Cooper).

         https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew

         2020

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Byron, Lord. "Darkness." Poem. 1816. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 560.* (Apocalypse).

_____. "Darkness." In Byron, Poetical Works. Ed. Robert Page. new ed. rev. John Jump. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1970.

_____. "Darkness." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Gen. ed. M. H. Abrams with Stephen Greenblatt. Vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1999. 560.* (Apocalypse).

_____. "Darkness." Online at Poetry Foundation.*

         https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b

         2020

_____. "Darkness." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 12 Sept. 2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/darkness.html

         2012

_____. "Darkness." In "Two Poems of Darkness." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 Dec. 2012.* (Donne, "A Nocturnal"; Byron, "Darkness").

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/two-poems-of-darkness.html

         2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music

 

 

The Doubleclicks. "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember." YouTube

         http://youtu.be/uvSTyxvfBGM

         2014

 

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

 

Bastani, Aaron. "Everything You Know about the Future Is Wrong – Aaron Bastani meets John Gray." Video interview. YouTube (Novara Media) 22 Oct. 2023.* (British politics; Geopolitics; Feudalism; Collapse, Social exclusion, Social cohesion, Social democracy, Thatcherism, Globalisation, Progressivism, Tyranny, Revolution, Utopianism, Far-right, Trump and Clinton, Abortion, Rights, Conflicts, Representation, Radical liberalism, Resistance, Legitimation).

         https://youtu.be/6rsGkfngA5M

         2024

 

Chomsky, Noam. "The End of Organized Humanity." Video talk. 2023. YouTube (The Poetry of Predicament) 1 Dec. 2024.* (Surveillance capitalism, Elites, Environmentalism, Nuclear war, Self-destruction, Progress and civilization).

https://youtu.be/VY9PZvK6CZs

         2024

 

Cochet, Yves. "La moitié de la population actuelle va mourir d'ici 15 ou 20 ans." Video. (Canal+).  YouTube (L'Info du Vrai) 25 Sept. 2019.*

         https://youtu.be/RDEmI9d4UGo

         2021

_____. "Yves Cochet: De l'effondrement à la pandémie de Covid-19." Video. YouTube (Brut) 8 April 2020.*

         https://youtu.be/ZUnIOVRc-6U

         2021

 

Cooper, Paul. (Novelist, historian and filmmaker). YouTube (Fall of Civilizations).*

         https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew

         2020

_____. "1. Roman Great Britain: The Work of Giants Crumbled." Video. YouTube (Fall of Civilizations) 8 April 2020.*

https://youtu.be/glKe9njOB24

2020

_____. "2. The Bronze Age Collapse – Mediterranean Apocalypse." Video. YouTube (Fall of Civilizations) 8 April 2020.*

https://youtu.be/B965f8AcNbw

2020

_____. "4. The Greenland Vikings: Land of the Midnight Sun." Video. YouTube (Fall of Civilizations) 14 April 2020.*

         https://youtu.be/lmbY-GrM8pI

         2020

_____. "9. The Aztecs —A Clash of Worlds." Documentary. (Fall of Civilizations, 9). YouTube (Fall of Civilizations) 28 Oct. 2020. (Part 1 of 2):

https://youtu.be/f8JVdpWCKeM

         (Part 2 of 2, MISTAKENLY labeled Part 1 of 2):

         https://youtu.be/cDdKZrvg1pE

         2021

 

McPherson, Guy. "Myth of Sustainability." YouTube (MuskegonCC) 18 Feb. 2012.*

         http://youtu.be/SIP0O1NJVZA

         2013

 

Meadows, Dennis. "Dennis Meadows interview (Part 4/4) (A Peaceful Collapse & Many Revolutions)." Video. YouTube (We Love Earth) 4 Sept. 2017.* (Overpopulation, Resources, Collapse, Environment, Depopulation, Sustainability).

         https://youtu.be/Dbo6uvJBtZg

         2023

 

Mignerot, Vincent. "L'effondrement: inéluctable?" Video lecture. YouTube (Université de Bretagne Sud) 18 Oct. 2019.* (Ecology, Energetic transition, sustainability, collapse).

https://youtu.be/9ME2gHHEdH8

         2021

 

Orlov, Dmitri. "The Collapse." YouTube (toalexsmail) 22 March 2011.*

         http://youtu.be/Ecfxl1wZDpE

         2013

 

Weinstein, Bret. "Entropy, Energy & The 4th Frontier: Chris Martenson on DarkHorse." Video. YouTube (Bret Weinstein) 22 Oct. 2023.* (WEF, information, disinformation, collapse, science and sustainability, capitalism and energy; paradigms; human evolution and posthumanism).

https://youtu.be/WEYKGNoLxho

2024

_____. "The rent seeking elite, depopulation, and collapse of society (Chris Martenson)." Video. YouTube (Darkhorse Podcast Clips) 3 Nov. 2023.*

https://youtu.be/JBCEu5bU6RA

         2024

 

West, Geoffrey. "The Simplicity, Unity & Complexity of Life from the Biosphere to the Anthroposphere." Video lecture. YouTube (Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum) 18 March 2024.*  (Sustainability, Systems, Networks, Evolution, Complexity, Structures, Scale, Size, Growth, Economy, Infrastructures, Postindustrial society, Cities, Telephones, Interactions, Energy, Metabolism, Consumption, Anthopocene, Collapse, Paradigm shifts, Innovations, Malthus, John von Neumann, Singularity, Longevity).

https://youtu.be/pjJFzZpBN2c

2024

 

 

 

 

 

See also Crisis (cultural, civilization); Global crisis; Olduvai theory; Civilization; Sustainability; Overpopulation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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