"In James Bridle’s New Dark Age, he outlines in the face of climate change and other current planetary existential threats “a kind of shame in speaking about the exigencies of the present, and a deep vulnerability” which often remains unaddressed, trapping the individual in a reality of “fantasy and abstraction.” The monoculture of technologies available for us to think through and with, as well as the ongoing campaign for us to surrender faith to these technologies, has led to our current crisis."