SPEAKING TO THE DEFEATED. Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His research concerns the metaphysics, politics and history of world-building. His books are Technic and Magic (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Prophetic Culture (Bloomsbury, 2021) and his next book Otherworlds, Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History will investigate the history of cosmological imagination during times of crisis in the Mediterranean area.

"The values of old are gone, and you have to reinvent your way of life from scratch"

"An apocalypse reveals all the things that usually, in your daily life, you tend to not notice immediately."

"The world is produced outside of us to a minimal extent. It is produced within us to a maximum extent."