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“the post-rationalist (aka fundamentalist) future”

The future’s getting weird and scary. My futurist friend Matt Jones said to me the other day that, in one sense, the future is a race between the Bright Spime Future and what other smart friend Dr Joshua Ellis has termed the Grim Meathook Future. What’s the Grim Meathook Future? Take a look at New Orleans -- what is now called the K-Hole, the hole that Hurricane Katrina left in the United States. Everyone knew in advance that the 2006 hurricane season was going to be a freak one. The K-Hole is the remains of a massive system failure. That’s the Grim Meathook Future: infrastructures that cannot cope. Dead bodies laying for two weeks on the streetcorners of the most powerful nation on earth: that’s the Grim Meathook Future. Things turning backwards. I live on an island that’s just been informed that there’s probably not enough water to go round this summer. Turn that sentence around in your heads a few times.
—Warren Ellis, THE MINISTRY 03 - What Goes Into the Sausage?

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