possibility studies
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
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will have histories that have not been written yet. Possibility is the hope we wear when we charge into battle. It is stronger than assumption or reaction because it is intentional.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
With care and imagination, the possibilities are endless. The possibilities for finding a way in emergencies are not countable, controllable, or predictable.
Nora Bateson, Combining
While scientific progress, then, proceeds by curiously exploring adjacent possibilities, preference is given to work closely tied to existing science and conducted by a privileged subset of scientists.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Art, as Bloch said, is a laboratory of possibilities. Indeed, other worlds become possible as and insofar as we curiously reformulate the networks in our heads—and in our hearts.
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
History can get stuck and can go into reverse. Powerful interests will do whatever they can to resist, divert, confuse or disrupt trends that they find threatening. Imagination is one of the weapons with which to confront them—imagination that is compelling, rigorous and thought through.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Collectively, these four forms of the possible (i.e. new node, new edge, changed node, changed edge) in network science are studied under the notion of the adjacent possible (Björneborn, 2020). The term “adjacent possible” refers to the fact that what is possible is what is adjacent to what exists. What is impossible is what is not adjacent to what
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Positive politics emphasises the openness and possibility of the future. Negative politics emphasises risk and harms. It is defensive, sceptical and nostalgic, convinced that the best years lie in the past.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
From the interdictions of quarantine to the forced migration of millions, from post-truth politics to the consequences of extreme weather phenomena, our reality reminds us that the positive futures imagined for the 21st century are in question. Or, at least, that we paradoxically live, at once, in the best and the worst of times (Wijnberg, 2019)