Polycrisis
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Polycrisis
From mythmaking to legal treaties to weaving to movement building, what knits these various examples together is their avoidance of single solutions to complex problems, instead enabling a pursuit of multiple different actions and wider systemic changes with long term, positive transformations
Anab Jain • Radical Design for a World in Crisis
“For the past few years, I have had to ask myself a question I never asked before in my life: What should we call the era we’re living in today?” our columnist Thomas Friedman asks. There’s no consensus as of now: It has been referred to as the Anthropocene, the Information Age, the Artificial Intelligence Age, the Return of Geopolitics. “But none... See more
instagram.comthe great thing about living in a world of dying systems is that you are uniquely well-positioned to replace suboptimal systems with something superior. New growth takes root best in the decay of its predecessors. For most of the past, if you wanted to create a better future, you had to rally the troops and take someone else’s land or destroy
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38
Indeed, even if one could apply the notion of oscillation between
polarized features proffered by current political ideologies, a normative choice to affirm a paradigmatic project beyond such oscillation is more advisable. This normativity is rooted in compassion, care, cohesion, solidarity, social responsibility, universal healthcare and education,
... See moreAlex Fergnani • Metamodern Futures: Prescriptions for Metamodern Foresight
Before a tipping point in a complex system, there are early warning signals that may be detected.14 The most widely applicable of these early warning signals is “critical slowing down”—the phenomenon we are all familiar with before our computer crashes, and rather than heed the implications of this slower processing power, we jam at the keys in
... See moreSummer Praetorius • The Great Forgetting
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
... See moreMolly Barth • Extra-Existentialism
At this moment, we are unequivocally confronted with the need to reimagine our humanity and what it means to be living organisms sharing the planet with many other organisms, some living, some not. This is nothing new.
However, at this moment, we can plainly see how black, brown, queer and disabled bodies are devalued; how people who threaten the
... See moreStephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time