The Shift is Real
The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked t
... See moreMark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Sometimes, the world moves on its axis and suddenly becomes ready for what a few months prior was almost unimaginable.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
We’re all going to travel the same shocks and slides; the question is how do we experience it and who gets to decide how it lands. That’s the contest. Credit: Developed by Movement Generation with Our Power Campaign; Updated May 2017 When folks say, “Catastrophe is inevitable,” I think: well, yeah, but change is also inevitable; transition is inevi
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Changing the way we fundamentally perceive and experience reality requires seismic shifts in the collective imagination; the difficulty being that our systems of sense-making are deeply entrenched within us; separating ourselves from them is, by definition, existential. Developing our capacity to hold the fear that comes with this, sitting with it ... See more