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Narrative Slipstream Effects
Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
So there are patterned, regular and rule-bound systems; these rule-bound workings can come to generate various unintended effects; and unpredictable events disrupt and abruptly transform what appear to be rule-bound and enduring patterns. This is a view which emphasizes networks of people, of systems, of societies as fundamentally historical, and w
... See moreJohn Urry • What is the Future?
It’s revealing to think of mimetic desire along a continuum. Certain people and organizational cultures are more prone to mimesis than others. And one thing is clear, on a societal level: any society in which people are no longer struggling with scarcity but coping with abundance will undergo an explosion of mimetic desire. In this universe of desi... See more
read.lukeburgis.com • Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire
This new collective value system is apparent by looking at several intersecting trends: new cultural, spiritual, political, scientific, and social movements which point to a neo-romantic, post-ideological, open source, globally responsive, and paradox resolving grand narrative