A threshold before Priced Out of Personhood—bridging When the Future Won’t Hold into the systems beneath it. If the last series named collapsed futurity, this one asks what made it material, and who profits when life becomes cost.
Before this next series begins, I wanted to stop here for a moment at the threshold between what I’ve just finished and what I’m about to begin.
Because I don’t think I’m done with When the Future Won’t Hold.
That series was never only about despair. It was about collapsed futurity—what it means to live in a world where the future no longer arrives as shelter, invitation, or recognisable shape. It was about what happens when there are no mirrors in which to see yourself becoming, and no windows through which to imagine a life that can actually hold.
But when I reached the end of that series, one question was still standing there waiting for me:
Not just what does this collapse feel like?But what produces it?
This video is a prelude to Priced Out of Personhood, the series that follows that question deeper.
If When the Future Won’t Hold explored the lived experience of withheld futurity, Priced Out of Personhood turns toward the machinery underneath it—the policies, institutions, economic logics, and moral vocabularies that make continuity increasingly fragile for so many of us. Housing, healthcare, education, disability support, debt, labour, and the broader cost of survival do not sit outside that collapse. They are often the conditions that produce it.
For autistic people, disabled people, poor people, trans people, carers, students, and anyone living inside permanent precarity, the future does not always fail to hold because we are pessimistic. Sometimes it fails to hold because the structures around us have been organised in ways that make continuity materially difficult. When care becomes conditional, support becomes negotiable, and human need is constantly translated into overhead, burden, or liability, the future contracts.
This next series begins there.
It asks what happens when a world becomes so organised around extraction that it can no longer recognise life outside the ledger. It asks how personhood itself becomes conditional on profitability, legibility, and compliance. And it asks what it means to refuse a system that counts us before it knows us.
If you’ve been with me through When the Future Won’t Hold, this is not a departure. It is the next layer of the same question.
We are not leaving the grief behind.We are following it into structure.
