adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
Octavia Butler (amb)
All successful life is (Fractal)
Adaptable, (Adaptive)
Opportunistic, (Nonlinear/Iterative)
Tenacious, (Resilient/Transformative Justice)
Interconnected, and (Interdependent/Decentralized)
Fecund. (Creates More Possibilities)
Understand this. (Scholarship, Reflection)
Use it. (Practice/Experiment)
Shape God. (Intention)
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Imagination is one of the spoils of colonization, which in many ways is claiming who gets to imagine the future for a given geography. Losing our imagination is a symptom of trauma. Reclaiming the right to dream the future, strengthening the muscle to imagine together as Black people, is a revolutionary decolonizing activity.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
While we know that our imaginations shape our sociocultural experience through the creation of worlds, modernity thrives by throwing tight constraints around it, degenerating our ability and capacity to imagine radically new futures into being. This ontological war against possibility is ‘defuturing’ — there are less futures available to us; or put... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
Changing the way we fundamentally perceive and experience reality requires seismic shifts in the collective imagination; the difficulty being that our systems of sense-making are deeply entrenched within us; separating ourselves from them is, by definition, existential. Developing our capacity to hold the fear that comes with this, sitting with it ... See more