If We had More Imagination, We could Have Less Capitalism
If we take this idea seriously, that this is an interpenetrated, interrelated, interconnected cosmos, then there’s going to be interconnections with creativity.
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What’s a Professional Futurist?
Orwell nailed it in 1984, that who controls the present controls the past, and who controls the past controls the future.
Do we Need a New Myth, or No Myth?
This is the true, biggest challenge I’m facing as a writer and thinker. Myth: Do we need a new one, or do we need to dispense with them altogether?
What Science Fiction Ought to Be
If you think there is hope for a decent future — and I do — then make that future come alive for your family and friends. I ask only two things: that it shows a realistic future, and that it be fun.
Hedgespoken, ‘a Vehicle for the Imagination’
What are the unhealthy stories that we tell now? The story of unlimited growth. The story that we are separate. Any number of stories about who we are and our place in the world, and what it means to be alive.
Making Culture for the Change in the Making: Psychological Underpinnings of the Shift to an Egalitarian Society
Although creating an alternative culture requires effort, some effort is also put in maintaining the dominant culture. So the question is where to put the effort.
Robert Macfarlane: “The Metaphors we Use Deliver us Hope, or they Foreclose Possibility”
These debates are precisely what makes the Anthropocene so valuable as an idea. It stops us short. It buttonholes us. It head-butts us. Then it asks us really, really hard questions while we’re reeling. I think that’s where its value lies.
We Are All in the Clutches of the Delusion Dragon
It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is consensus enough is 103% short for effective response.
Breaking the Chains of Delusion
Many people think that technological development follows a path directed by quasi-natural laws that head into one and only one direction – called “progress” – which is: to use more technology, more complex technology, more expensive technology, more powerful technology.
Favianna Rodriguez says Climate Change Imagery Lacks a Human Touch
I would like to see less images specifically about the traditional view of nature. For years, for decades, for centuries, many of the spaces of nature just have not been accessible — or have been only accessible to a limited few, mostly elites, mostly white people. So to use imagery that doesn’t invite all of us to participate is a mistake.
Sally Weintrobe on Nurturing Imagination amid a ‘Culture of Uncare’
For peoples’ minds and imaginations to flower, they need two conditions. They need to be able to love and to care for others and they need to be cared about. I don’t think this is said enough.
Reordering The Anthropocene
Reaching past narrow definitions of exploitation to consider the other-than-human world allows us to speak of domination more broadly. It opens us up to what nonexploitative, nondominating relationships might require politically, but it also demands alternatives.