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The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorthemergencemagazine.org
ON KNOWLEDGE & WORLDBUILDING In the last 20 years, dissemination of knowledge has changed so much. And I think this is actually a process of worldbuilding too, not only kind of building an epistemological world, but also in sharing knowledge, in generating knowledge together, you’re actually making a statement about what values matter... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
So is it helpful to think of a city as a computational kind of—I wouldn’t even say ecology because ecology is a separate metaphor itself—as a computational object or system? Is it a biophysical body? Is it an ecology? Is it a machine? And I think that different policymakers and reformers and other folks who kind of build worlds use different metaph... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
But then it’s not only about disseminating information. Over the years, we’ve also seen libraries take on the role of disseminating the networks necessary to receive information. So the pandemic also demonstrated how many people are on the wrong side of the digital divide, how many kids could not get online for school. How many people could not app... See more
Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab • Shannon Mattern - multispecies worldbuilding lab
While each on its own is exciting enough, an ecology of labs together promises a revolution in how we address complex social challenges.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Le Guin and Butler use the world-building capacities of the speculative and science fictions as a cypher into the complex social, cultural, and ecological conditions of life here on Spaceship Earth[2]. In their work, Butler and Le Guin established a more empathetic kind of world-building, using the genres as a way to think critically about society ... See more
Ecological World-Building: From Science Fiction to Virtual Reality
First, that the most creative and profound solutions to the most serious, knotty, systemic problems that we face can only be addressed through the application of radical cognitive diversity: the entrainment of the widest possible range of embodied viewpoints and experiences that we can muster. We must also recognize that cognitive diversity extends
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