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Navigating the Mysteries
My self-appointed mission: to think and feel my way into our darkening future, trace out the pathways before us, game out our options, and along the way — amidst my own splutterings of hope and despair — take good notes and draw a few maps that might be useful to all of us.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
... See moreJenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
We need a philosophy we can smell, a pheromonal philosophy that draws us into the liminal and gives us the tools to navigate it. And it will not be the intellectuals who get us there. It will not be the autistic machinations of Silicon Valley, or the frothy mouthed proclamations of activists. It will be the artists, the shamans, those who go deeply... See more
Rebel Wisdom • A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Grand Narrative
The question, then, is not so much how to create the world as how to keep alive that moment of creation, how to realize that Coyote world in which creation never ends and people participate in the power of being creators, a world whose hopefulness lies in its unfinishedness, its openness to improvisation and participation.