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It’s the summer! Time for heatwaves and holidays (hopefully)! I find summer is the season for focusing on the here and now, for writing in the present tense. The darkness has gone, the days are long and filled with sunshine (if we could get rid of the clouds) and we feel the urge to be outside. There is nothing I love more on a summer’s day than si
... See moreAndrew Anderson • The Ritual of Writing: Writing as Spiritual Practice
As the columnist Aditya Chakrabortty puts it, ‘One of the great casualties of austerity is likely to be imagination, the sense that alternatives to this broken regime not only exist, but can be built by us.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
I’ve sensed a thaw lately in the cosmos of letters: an energy, an urgency. Maybe it’s because people fear this might be the last good season before the end of the world, so we’d better get it all out now. Maybe it’s just because it’s spring.
The Golden Sardine
If social change is a push-pull process “in which a society is at once pulled forward by its own magnetic images of an idealized future and pushed from behind by its realized past,” without a magnetic pull from the front, how are we to move out from the stagnation? The mass phenomenon of the burnout directly reflects the troubles of our cultural im... See more
Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images
