Towards a Digital Pluriverse

As stated by Glăveanu (2022) in his Manifesto, “[t]he possible re-emerges as an organizing category in our lives and our thinking not despite but because of living through the seemingly impossible and unimaginable.” The possible, transitions, temporalities, and the pluriverse appear as part of the same complex process of civilizational transition.

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Modernism’s methodologies of mapping, designing, planning, for controlling and changing deeply complex systems may not be the answer to the challenges we face. Maybe we need to go underground — working in networked, symbiotic companionships, like mycelial arrangements, to generate infinite micro-revolutions.

We must build data infrastructures that embody multiple ways of knowing and understanding our world, and that help us advance both ecological and social ends, before corporations conquer this space for themselves.

Progressive imaginaries point to futures that are simultaneously more differentiated and integrated, showing an underlying unity on a larger scale and a heightened awareness. They offer generalisable ideas, albeit ones that then need to be adapted to context. Reactionary imaginaries look backwards, reinforcing separation, and offer answers that onl

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