Collapse

Collapse or its variants may refer to:

Concepts

• Collapse (medical)
• Collapse (structural)
• Collapse (topology), a mathematical concept
• Lung collapse
• Collapse, the action of collapsing or telescoping objects
• Ecosystem collapse or Ecological collapse
• Economic collapse
• Engelhardt collapsible lifeboats, including lifeboats of the RMS Titanic
• Gravitational collapse creating astronomical objects
• Societal collapse
  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the collapse of Soviet federalism
  • State collapse
• Wave function collapse, in physics

Art, entertainment and media

Literature

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, a book by Jared Diamond
• Collapse (journal), a journal of philosophical research and development published in the United Kingdom

Film

• Collapse (film), a 2009 documentary directed by Chris Smith and starring Michael Ruppert
• Collapse, a 2010 documentary film based on the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Games

• Collapse (2008 video game), an action game released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows
• Collapse!, a 1999 series games created by GameHouse
• Collapse, a fictional event in the computer game Dreamfall
• The Collapse (Deus Ex), a fictional event within the plot of the computer game Deus Ex and its sequel Deus Ex: Invisible War

Music

Albums

• Collapse (Across Five Aprils album), 2006
• Collapse (Deas Vail album), 2006
• Collapse (EP), 2018 record by Aphex Twin

Songs

• "Collapse" (Soul Coughing song), 1996
• "Collapse" (Saosin song), 2006
• "Collapse" (Imperative Reaction song), 2006
• "Collapsed" (Aly & AJ song), 2005

See also

• All pages with titles containing Collapse
• The Collapse (disambiguation)
• Cave-in, a kind of structural collapse
• Disintegrate (disambiguation)
• Fall (disambiguation)
• Telescoping (mechanics), the action of collapsing objects