Mike Marrotte

The climate crisis and the Anthropocene have made it clear that our old stories – often fixated on human heroes conquering nature or extracting resources – are inadequate. We need narratives that foreground entanglement: the interdependence of humans, non-human creatures, and the Earth itself.

Meow Wolf’s work has been described as gently drawing people into a broader narrative universe through play, and indeed they have expanded their storytelling across multiple locations that interconnect into a shared “mythology.” The House of Eternal Return stands as a proof-of-concept that stories can be told not just in books or on screens, but in

The reason we “need stories that mirror the mind of the world” is because stories are one of the primary tools we have to understand ourselves and our place in the world. If the world has changed – if our awareness has expanded to see the complex, fragile networks we exist in – then our stories must change too. By grounding this evolution in resear