Meanings
- uncountableDesire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.
The Southern Reach books imaginatively figure this contact. The beauty of the books is that they let the other side win. They offer a collapsitarianism in reverse.
2014, David Tompkins, “Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy”, in Los Angeles Review of Books1 more example
To its adherents, collapsitarianism suggests a giddy liberation from hope, from futile shoring up of ailing economies like Detroit’s and the Sunbelt’s, from bailouts and stimulus plans and climate change and toxic-asset recovery.
2009, Virginia Heffernan, “Apocalypse Ciao: Let the End Times Roll”, in Mother Jones
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