Polycrisis

History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread

The Age of Reorientation

owing to the fact that behind the many interconnected problems of the metacrisis there is a deep ideological problem (i.e., a lack of unified narrative), metamodernism can be defined as a new collective value system1 that incorporates, contextualizes and transcends all previous value systems while resolving the conflict between them in an

What does the future hold looking ahead from the third decade of the third millennium? Despite unprecedented economic and technological progress, the world as we know it is unraveling, sharp social and wealth inequalities persist, political ideologies abound, and climate change is overdetermined. Because these socio-economic, political and

Surviving…whatever all this is… doesn’t have to mean being left a shell of a human. In culture today, there’s an attempt to make something out of it. To process the tension of living through a long drawn out societal collapse with a sense of wonder, a new perspective, or new ways to overcome challenges.

Maybe things will start getting better. Most

“We have a problem with scale. The planetary crisis can seem impossible to grasp. But focusing on the local can feel limited. How do we work to a scale that feels manageable? There is a way of reorganising how we think about scale: the -shed. -sheds (from Old English scead) describe the natural boundaries between waterbodies. They are not