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Our society’s individualism, largely driven by technological advances and the illusion of endless progress, will no longer be sustainable – will not be able to last – in a world where anthropogenic climate change is a constant and growing threat.
Rupert Read • Welcome to the Chaoscene
the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
professional perspective, I realized that I couldn’t restrict my search for evidence
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of circulati
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
cannot be ignored when it comes to our political actions. Legal representation, reckoning and protection are founded upon human ideas of individuality and identity – but these are anathema to an ecological accounting of the more-than-human world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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