futures

That is to say, our social groups, tools, situations, and, more broadly, environment have always served as a cognitive extension, networking our individual minds, allowing them to spill into each other and share processing tasks as a group. It’s as though our brains are aware of their own biohardware limitations. They naturally seek to form rings... See more

Author Hector Macdonald on blind spots:

“The camera never lies… but you can take a thousand different pictures of the same scene.”

Sometimes you have to imagine in a radical way that makes you seem a little crazy, that puts you in an embarrassing light, in order to open up a possibility that others have already closed down with their knowing realism. I’m prepared to be mocked and dismissed for defending nonviolence in the way that I do. It might be understood as one of the

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I'm interested in understanding the past as a resource for the present, but I'm not interested in the present as a kind of pathway to some idealised future. I'm interested in the present for itself. Especially if you meet people who are progressive on the left, they will often say things like, political violence is justified in the pursuit of your... See more

“More than two millennia after the Axial Age, we may be entering another globally synchronized rethink. With no shared ideology and dwindling trust in inherited institutions, humanity is being forced back to first principles. What is justice? What deserves to endure? Questions of AI ethics, political legitimacy and governance are no longer... See more

We don’t create fantasy worlds to escape reality. We create them so we can better see, understand, and reshape reality.

Being alive right now means rethinking boundaries, pushing on the walls of your imagination. It means feeling around in this world for another one.