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Solnit suggests that the real disaster is everyday life, which alienates us from each other and from the protective impulse that we harbor.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Rebecca Solnit explores the connection in “A Paradise Built in Hell,” articulating how amidst the destruction that disasters enact, more considerate and caring communities often arise. It’s a dynamic that can spark deep joy for those who experience it, Solnit writes — a joy that “reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness an... See more
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
disasters are often moments of strange joy.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
As Rebecca Solnit wrote for The Guardian, “Our greatest power lies in our roles as citizens, not consumers, when we can band together to collectively change how our world works.
Em Howell • Multiplayer Futures
elsewhere, in ordinary times and in other extraordinary times.
Rebecca Solnit • A Paradise Built in Hell
It required imagination, empathy, and information
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
It required imagination, empathy, and information