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Dystopias Now | Commune
Yes. Is the future going to break our hearts? Yes. But around the margins, there is much we could do — on both the resistance and resilience fronts — and it is essential that we do it. Not just for society and the future, but for ourselves. Because only by getting on that bicycle and riding it, can we find our own balance.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Not to speak of the failure of dreams. Where once there were societies that served as models for a better future, grand plans, utopias, now there is distrust and dissatisfaction with any form of politics, a sense of powerlessness edging into nihilism.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
What we are facing over a decade is a decade of emergency rescue, of resiliency, of attempts at sustainability, rather than some kind of clear march toward advanced heights of civilization. We are into an era of decay and repurposing of broken structures, of new social inventions within networks, a world of 'Gothic High-Tech' and 'Favela Chic' (as ... See more
Bruce Sterling • Atemporality for the Creative Artist
scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will pl
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