Intro to the Metacrisis
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Intro to the Metacrisis
“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still
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Current reality, Horizon One, is the realm of managing and delivering present needs and wants by present methods. The Anthropocene is calling into question the sustainability of a huge proportion of current patterns of activities, and the very premises on which such patterns have been created.
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The human species is in the latter stages of the kind of transformation of context that only occurs every five hundred years or so. The meta-crisis is not merely ‘a lot of problems’ that we may or may not solve, rather it is the character of this time between worlds, where one world system is dying but another has yet to be born.