Nora Bateson — The Paradox of Agency

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“Right now, we have a crisis of leadership because we have a lot of un-whole people running the show. We can’t fault those people...they played the game as it was meant to be played. But, we can do better. And we must... We have a system built from a wounded, fragmented collective psyche that rewards unconscious, fragmented actions. It’s winner tak... See more

The Future Thinker’s Dilemma

We are normalized into an unworkable imbalance, forever tearing the world into pieces and reifying the need to grasp each answer, each ‘solution,’ and freeze it.

Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns

Post-activism is always a matter of disability. Not so much spanking new capacities but disability: where something breaks, that agency becomes distributed. That's why in a sense, post-activism means or suggests that the territorial, agential, humanist, dissociated self - the citizen is dead. And suddenly, we are all exposed to these immersive wate... See more

For the Wild • Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD

The primary limit of the word ‘system’ is its invocation of ‘arrangement’ (inherent in the Greek prefix ‘sys’). This, as we have just seen, relates to the way in which we have culturally been trained to explain and study our world in terms of parts and wholes and the way they ‘work’ together. The connotations of this systemic functional arrangement