Re-Framing
The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Bright lines once separated being alone and being in a crowd,” Nicholas Carr, the author of the new book Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, told me. “Boundaries helped us. You could be present with your friends and reflective in your downtime.” Now our social time is haunted by the possibility that something more interesting... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
A metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Causal Layered Analysis: An Integrative and Transformative Theory and Method
Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) is a transformative futures research theory/method that integrates multiple layers of analysis to provoke critical thinking and create alternative visions for policy development and decision-making.
metafuture.org“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
While all layers are always present and all are vital to understand any situation, Inayatullah (2003b, p.6) places a “higher” value on the mythic/metaphor layer because it informs all the other layers. Meadows (2008) similarly believes the most effective leverage point in a system is one that “transcends the paradigm”. For Meadows the “highest”... See more
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
There is a social cost to early-moving because all our reward systems are baked into those preexisting mutually reinforcing frames. When we adopt a new frame (e.g. “the climate crisis is an emergency worth our sustained attention”) we put at risk any reward systems in conflict with our new frame.