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And more than anything, it feels particularly, uncomfortably, acutely uncertain.

Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report

In this framework, it becomes clear that the traditional 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds is no longer relevant. In that scenario, you’ve already failed, as you're holding 100% centrally planned assets whose custody and value is manipulated by cross-border flows that influence global liquidity, disconnected from real economic productivity.

Jeff Park • The Radical Portfolio Theory

Ein Zeichen der gegenwärtigen Misere ist in dem Umstand zu sehen, dass sich die soziale Demokratie, für die in den vergangenen 200 Jahren so hart gekämpft worden ist, im Niedergang befindet und in vielen Ländern der Erde von autoritären populistischen Politikern sowie einer frustrierten Wählerschaft in Frage gestellt wird.

Eva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)

But today’s global environment, unlike the postwar era, is multi -polar, fragmented, and adversarial: market integration no longer guarantees political convergence, and financial instruments cannot by themselves substitute for an assumed shared strategic purpose that no longer exists.

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Postmodernism can be construed as the name for the complex of crises that the decline in the belief in the big Other has triggered, as Lyotard’s famous formulation of the postmodern condition – ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’ –suggests. Jameson, of course, would argue that the ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’ is one expression of the

Marc Fisher • Capitalist Realism

Mark has become increasingly obsessed by his own legacy in recent years. Things he can be remembered for besides Facebook.

Sarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

This distinction was brought home to me by collapse theorist, sci-fi novelist, and, former Archdruid of North America, John Michael Greer.20 “A controlled, creative transition to sustainability might have been possible,” Greer argues, “if the promising beginnings of the 1970s had been followed up in the ’80s and ’90s.” But our politicians and CEOs

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

our avenues for participation have narrowed as professionalization, specialization, and technocratization have expanded.

deglobalization.