decolonizando
Reality has such diversity of form because the number of alternatives for its manifestation is limitless.
Vadim Zeland • Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
Modernity’s coloniality is the elephant in the room.
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within... See more
At the core of modernity lies the belief that ‘there is no alternative’, that there is just one reality, one world — a singular, external world that pre-exists, and is separate from, our interactions with it. There is the world and then there is us — a fictitious notion that masquerades within... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists.
... See moreArturo Escobar • Welcome to Possibility Studies
Imagination is one of the spoils of colonization, which in many ways is claiming who gets to imagine the future for a given geography. Losing our imagination is a symptom of trauma. Reclaiming the right to dream the future, strengthening the muscle to imagine together as Black people, is a revolutionary decolonizing activity.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
we imagine the digital pluriverse as a space that can make way for a mosaic of communal, alternative, and autonomous cultural and economic worlds.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
These advocates aimed to counter the universal–not with a disregard of all things universal, but with an embrace of ‘many universals’. This is not a rejection of the necessity of scale; instead, it embraces federation and branching and —pluricultures over monocultures. Thus, the pluriverse arrays itself against a single universality as much as it... See more
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
#IndigenousWisdom — “Our bodies are archive of our culture.” — Chloe Calderon Chotrani (@BodyAs.Earth)
Thank you Chloe for letting me know about this potent offering from Indigenous elders & practitioners of Indigenous wisdom.
With the ongoing threats near & far to erase us from our... See more
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