Out now — April 16, 2026
The load-bearing myths are failing.
Progress. Providence. The arc of history bending toward justice. These stories made the world habitable for generations; they framed our ambitions, ordered our grief, and told us where we were going. They weren’t lies, exactly. They were structural members. And like any structure under long enough stress, they’ve begun to shift.
You can feel it. Most of us have stopped pretending we can’t.
Fracturism is my attempt to write honestly from inside that shift; not to repair the roof or sell you a new one, but to ask the harder question: what can be built in the open air?
What the Book Does
Fracturism is a philosophy for people who have noticed the fractures and decided to stop looking away. It draws on four bodies of work:
- Existentialism — for the confrontation with a silent cosmos
- Complexity science — for the collapse dynamics built into every system we depend on
- Neuroscience — for a grounded picture of the self we’re trying to construct
- The philosophy of technology — for the machinery reshaping meaning faster than meaning can catch up
From there it moves through the territory a working philosophy actually has to cover: how to construct a self when the old scaffolds are gone. How to live ethically in a world without commandments. How to do daily work that matters. Why ritual and myth are not decoration but survival technology. Why the crevices, the fractured places, might be the only honest habitat left.
It maps the terrain as it actually is and looks for what grows there.
This book is not a book of despair. Fracturism is not collapse worship, and it is not another curated stoicism for the anxious professional class. It is a field guide.
Who It’s For
If you have read the latest round of takes on meaning, decline, AI, institutions, or the spiritual condition of the West and come away feeling the analysis was sharper than the answer, this book is written for you.
If you have stopped waiting for the old stories to start working again but haven’t replaced them with cynicism, this book is written for you.
If you suspect there is something to build in the open air but don’t yet have a name for it, that name is Fracturism.
Get the Book
- Title: Fracturism: A Philosophy for the Fractured Age
- Author: Geoffrey Taber
- Published: April 16, 2026
- ISBN: 979-8995796206
- Available at: Amazon
If the book speaks to you, the most useful things you can do are simple ones: read it, lend it, argue with it, and leave a review. Fracturism is a framework meant to be stress-tested, not agreed with. I’d rather have honest readers than comfortable ones.
The roof isn’t getting fixed. Let’s see what we can build.
— Geoffrey