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November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Just TWO DAYS until our Issue 2 launch party in London!

Tickets for readings are sold out, but there are still a handful available for the party from 8pm — See you there!

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November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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NEW SPEAKER

This Sunday at the Barbican our editor @adriennebuller.bsky.social will chair a conversation between Andreas Malm and Steven Donziger on fossil capital, the state of climate politics and resisting dystopia.

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October 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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PARTY UPDATE: we’ve moved our sold out Issue #2 launch party just around the corner to a larger venue and added a handful more tickets 🎈

Join us at the OCTOBER GALLERY on 7 Nov for readings + a party!

📍 October Gallery, WC1
🗓️ Fri 7 Nov, from 18:30

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October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We're having another party 🎉

Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!

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October 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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September 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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ISSUE #2 OUT NOW!

Featuring: @triofrancos.bsky.social, @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social, @brosef-stalin.bsky.social, @jacobbolton.bsky.social + more!

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September 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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ISSUE #2 has arrived 👀👀👀

…and will be on its way to subscribers very soon!

Out MONDAY on our website and in print. Get your copy now at www.break-down.org 🔗
September 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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As temperatures rise and the Arctic thaws, capital is eyeing new opportunities: for extraction, for shipping and for extending a lifeline to business as usual.

JACOB BOLTON (@jacobbolton.bsky.social) maps the spectre of Polar shipping lanes for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS.
September 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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*OUT SOON*

Our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social spoke to @triofrancos.bsky.social for ISSUE #2, on the geopolitics of extraction and the frontiers of green capitalism.

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September 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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NEXT WEEK: Join us for a series of live debates and discussions with our editor, @adriennebuller.bsky.social 📣👇
September 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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ISSUE #2 – FRONTIERS
OUT 22 SEPT

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September 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Introducing FRONTIERS Issue #2!

Publishing 22 Sept.

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September 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The far right has long portrayed itself as the defender of a pristine nature against urban corruption, but its history in the British countryside tells a far more complex story.

@rsmythfreelance.bsky.social on British fascism and the countryside — read now:

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August 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Woke Capital is dead. Its post-mortem exposes the failure of Western governments to act on climate—long before Trump's return.

BRETT CHRISTOPHERS writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1)
June 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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In great company at @lighthousebks.bsky.social‬!

We're now also stocked at Mag Culture down in London...

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June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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“Faced with this challenge, today’s far right largely espouses climate 'denihilism': a combination of overt denialism and perpetuation of the fossil fuel economy. In other words, drill baby drill, and party like it’s 1999”

📚From the archive: 'On Disaster Nationalism' by ‪@leninology.bsky.social‬
June 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“In an inherently unjust system, not only does replacing one fuel source for another not guarantee an energy transition, it also does not address the underlying institutions and systems that drive injustice.”

📚 From the archive: 'What is a Just Transition?' by MIJIN CHA.
June 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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To live in temporal exile is to exist outside of time, confined by deliberate social and infrastructural policies that erase history and foreclose the future.

Kahron Spearman writes for RIGHT TURN (ISSUE #1).
June 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ISSUE #2 OPEN CALL

We are now open for pitches for The BREAK—DOWN ISSUE #2 (Climate Frontiers), which explore the physical frontiers of the climate crisis.

Please send pitches to [email protected] by 10 June.
We encourage writers to interpret this theme as broadly as they wish. Essays already commissioned for the issue include pieces on shipping lanes and extraction in the Arctic, nickel mining in Indonesia, and data centres and land use in Ireland. Possible topics could include reports or analyses on the global struggles over critical minerals, essays on mining and drilling, analyses of global supply chains and agricultural systems, or accounts of impacts on the landscape and biodiversity. We will also consider both fiction and memoir that is within the themes of the issue and which have some focus on capitalism and the climate crisis. To be considered, pitches must include a one or two paragraph summary of the essay's argument, an author bio, and a brief explanation of why the piece is right for The BREAK—DOWN. Pieces are paid at £600 for roughly three thousand words, although we can increase the rate for on-the-ground reporting or where costs are higher. The deadline for pitches is the 10 June, and we aim to respond the following week. ONLINE/NEWSLETTER Alongside commissioning essays for ISSUE #2, we are also open to submissions for online only pieces. These need not be as focused on a single theme as material for the print issues, although some relationship between the topic and the climate crisis is necessary. Pitches can be for essays, debates, reading guides, etc, as well as fiction and literary non-fiction. Online essays will be paid at 20p per word, to a maximum of £400. There is no deadline for online pieces. We will accept pitches on a rolling basis. Please send pitches to pitching@break-down.org including either 'ISSUE #2' or 'ONLINE' in the subject line depending on whether you're pitching for print or online.
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM