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"Three Theses on Liminality"
Notes from “Intersecting Worlds: The One We’ve Got, The One We’re Building, The Ones We Imagine”
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
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
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
As we sway between doom and denial, we are stuck in what Lauren Berlant calls a ‘State of Impasse’ — a moment where existing social imaginaries and practices no longer produce the outcomes they once did, but no new imaginaries or practices have yet been created.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Three concepts are crucial to the work of van Gennep and Turner: liminality, communitas, and anti-structure. The three terms are closely related and are, in some contexts, interchangeable. Van Gennep introduced the term liminality (from “limen”, i.e., threshold) in The Rites of Passage (1909). In many cultures, elaborate rituals mark important tran
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
In these practices and spaces, ordinary life is suspended and another reality takes precedence, a reality that, echoing Deleuze and Guattari's fascination with “becomings,” empowers a transformation from one state of being to another.