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During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism ove... See more
Aggregate – Black Spaces Matter
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
To engage with the possible means to infuse ‘what is’ with new perspectives and, in doing so, to radically transform it (Gaggioli, 2020; Glăveanu, 2020a).
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
far from closing us off or shutting us down, anger can—note: can, but does not necessarily—in turn stem from and deepen our care and concern for the world and its well-being.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Virtue cannot be limited to those with the means to practice it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Our social skills are currently inadequate to the pluralistic societies we are living in.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
“Our individual psychological doom manifests collectively as a universal ecological calamity. Both are interwoven with one another. Both are symptoms of a fundamental misunderstanding of ourselves and of reality. In a world of ruined aliveness, it is impossible to be alive oneself. Both inner aliveness and the aliveness of the natural world are fac... See more