Meta in the Middle: Leftism and Conservatism Converse
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The Abs-Tract Organization Feed Sources
The World That’s Emerging
Cocreation and (In)coherence in Metamodern Praxis What was Emerging? In 2018, a novel network of intellectuals and changemakers convened for the first time, in Berlin at the “Emerge Gathering”. I participated and wrote about it in The World We’re Creating, partly a reflection on the context, event, and my role, and partly a review of
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Game B(ullshit)?
Why Systems Change Without Social Justice Will Never Work Introduction “Game B” colloquially refers to a novel discourse and sense-making community framing a needed shift from default human history (“Game A”) to a new mode of behavior and social organization that does not reproduce any of the generator functions of existential risk (from over-consumption to nuclear
Man on Fire, Sign of the End-Times
How Scorched Earth Politics Inflames Extreme Protest “Every moment is a memory that has shaped our life in one way or another. The beauty of these moments is there is something to learn. What if these moments were presented in the form of a story? Even better, as Art. My name is Arnav.” — Arnamania.com The World Ablaze, the
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The Meta-Convergence Continuum
Smart Cities, Systems Change, and Metamodernism To be sure, I’m not advocating building some elitist utopian ringworld nonsense… This is just a cool image to illustrate a continuum. “…the guided convergence of technology with natural and social systems to form self-regulating governance platforms will potentially be the solution to what humanity has constructed as our
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Rise of the Emergentsia (5)
The Revolution Will Not Be Boring *This article was originally posted on Emerge. See Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 “… in America, we think of rebellion as this very sexy thing and it involves action and force and looks good. My guess is the forms of rebellion that will end up changing anything meaningfully here will be
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