Nicole

Why are we futuring to find solutions to the problems created by extrapolative, exponential, and extractive systems, when we should be futuring to imagine emerging novelty and construct transformative realities that would allow us to elevate our human, planetary, and universal experience above and beyond those systems?

For Chayka, doing it right means cultural stewardship, or curation. With examples like art curators and independent radio DJs, Chayka shows that curation isn’t just deciding where on the wall to put the painting. It actually often requires “hundreds of hours of research, writing, thinking, and maintenance," he writes.

Picked by hand, not an algorithm,

Said differently, society today frames productivity in a way that only sees “doing” and excludes “being”

But in excess, self-development can create a world of self-interested individuals and that’s what I’m up against here. I’m against the continual process of self-betterment at the expense of community-betterment. I’m against participating in too much theory and not enough action. We can focus on being more loving and more empathetic and more... See more

Broadly speaking, writing fiction makes me feel more attuned to the world, and writing nonfiction sometimes makes me forget its existence.

When we can begin to tap into the deep vessel of who we truly are, so many things would end about oppression. I believe the powers that be don’t want us rested because they know that if we rest enough, we are going to figure out what is really happening and overturn the entire system. Exhaustion keeps us numb, keeps us zombie-like, and keeps us on... See more