1. Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Melbourne: Knopf, 2020), 12.
2. Derek Thompson, “Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers are Empty,” The Atlantic, 16 January 2020, theatlantic.com/ ideas/archive/2020/01/american-housing-has-goneinsane/605005/ (accessed 26 April 2021).
3. Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), 5.
4. Scott Galloway, “How the pandemic ushered in the Great Dispersion,” Marker, 8 December 2020, marker.medium. com/how-the-pandemic-ushered-in-the-great-dispersion-1a21fee657da (accessed 26 April 2021).
5. In my writing, I have adapted this phrase, which was originally used by David Weinberg in his 2002 book Small Pieces Loosely Joined. For example, see Dan Hill, “Slowdown landscapes: Small pieces, loosely joined,” Slowdow Papers, 24 September 2020, medium.com/slowdown-papers/ 28-small-pieces-loosely-joined-7e4bcf672b52 (accessed 3 May 2021).
6. Julia Watson, Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism (Cologne:…