Welcome to Possibility Studies
inflexible ontological framework that posits a distinct separation between human beings and reality, divides this reality into discrete parts, and defines truth in narrow, rigid terms.
AnaLouise Keating • Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change
The possibility of sitting with the discomfort of uncertainty and being open to multiple views of the world is difficult. Our prospective brains are not quite trained to maintain multiple worlds and views when simultaneously being forcefully told by all media possible what we should see, hear and believe. But, we all know, very well, the dangers of... See more
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
‘We have an amazing history of communal practices,’ Gómez-Mont told me. ‘Everything from agriculture to economic coops to indigenous ways of doing governance and democracy. But we have not analysed them deeply enough, because in terms of imagination, unfortunately, we’ve been chasing dreams – a notion of progress of the first world – instead of loo
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Indigenous futurism and Afrofuturism, for example, raise the query, what would science, technology, and industry look like if it did not depend—as it does now—on environmental extraction and human subjugation? Yet others, such as Sinofuturism and Gulf Futurism, simply ask, how would we see the future if the core concepts of “progress” arose from so... See more
Tropical Futurism Envisions the Climate of Our Fate
Transition imaginaries, Escobar points out, are different depending on the history and circumstances of where you live. In the Global South, one of the ways they are framed is Buen Vivir—or “Good Living” and collective well-being (sumak kawsay in Quechua). Emerging from the struggles of Indigenous communities, people of African descent, peasants, a
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