on better futures
We’ve been told that doing “good work” will lead to economic success, but really, it might just be the other way around. With the help of large collective organising, worker-driven structures, and knowledge-sharing, we can accomplish better work conditions and more beautiful, more fulfilling creative work.”
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82
It might seem that the close coupling of digital innovation with the market was inevitable, but our present reality is only one possible digital world — creating others is still possible, and there is little time to waste.
Rachel Coldicutt • Sunshine Machines: Towards a Feminist Future of Digital Care
I’ve developed a certain tenderness for the glitch: the riddled, dysfunctional thing that evades the conditions of what might be expected and what might be known, rupturing unfamiliar territories, or maybe a glimpse into a second reality that has been there all along
Tan Tuck Ming • My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
Magical Realism is, more than anything else, an attitude toward reality…. In Magical Realism the writer confronts reality and tries to untangle it, to discover what is mysterious in things, in life, in human acts. The principle thing is not the creation of imaginary beings or worlds but the discovery of the mysterious relationship between man and
... See morepoetrynw.org • Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility
There isn’t only one kind of person that can imagine what a better world could look like, whether it’s fictional or not
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
poetics and politics can be reshaped. Organizers are aspiring authors and artists, creating elements of stories, in constellations we are often unaware of, with pockets of unseen work happening far and wide. Creating connection, potential, and possibility is creative work. We are in a moment when we must hold prediction and possibility all at once.
... See moreKelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
challenges to long-held assumptions take place when individuals dive deeper and deeper into anticipatory imagination and provocation, and this opens the door to transformative realities that profoundly change the perspective of the foresight practitioner. Consequently, the possibility of these new worlds become an internal experience that can no
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