Worlding Raga: 2 – What is a World?
A World asks us to believe in its inventions and contradictions and to be ‘safe’ from our disbelief. In return, a World eats back at Reality, arms us with perspective, furnishes us with meaning, and gives us some measure of agency to expressively deal with new surprises from Reality.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
What is Worlding? Worlding is the artistic activity of an individual artist conceiving, incubating, triggering, and nurturing a World towards aliveness.
Ian Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
We never see the world exactly as it is because we are how the world is. I think it was William James who said, “My experience is what I agree to attend to, and only those things which I notice shaped my mind.” In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, ou... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
This is not a book about worldbuilding, or how to make your fantasy novel more credible. It's a book about Worlding. It's about re-enchanting our complex times by creating futures you can believe in, over and over again.