possibility studies
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
And that’s never felt like enough room, because I’m a spirit, [ laughs ] you know? I’m this massive energy like all humans are. So, so much of the work for me, of radical imagination is: what does it look like to imagine beyond the constructs? What does it look like to imagine a future where we all get to be there, not causing harm to each other,... See more
adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
If curiosity can be a critical comportment toward the possible, then to fully understand possibility one must also understand curiosity
Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility
Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican
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They also follow a narrative structure in which choices and opportunities are rendered intelligible by placing them within wider stories of who we are and who we are becoming.
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
The construction of norms, values, and ideologies around who, in society, is expected or has the right to discover new possibilities and, conversely, who is denied such opportunities is a political act. In fact, power relations within and between groups are a key determinant in the dynamic of the possible and the imposition of impossibility.
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
The way the future is imagined is inherently selective, because the future is inherently unknowable. Anything could happen, so the things we choose to imagine must necessarily be a subset of what is possible. Given this fact, it is important to carefully consider who gets to be involved in the act of imagination, and which ontological and
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(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists.
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Old attitudes and ideas simply aren’t adequate to help us navigate what lies ahead. And pervasive gloom about the future risks being self-fulfilling.