The polycrisis industrial complex

LONDON/OXFORD — In Constantine Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians”, the much-feared barbarians never turn up. “Now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?” the poem asks. “Those people were a kind of solution.”

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