Culture and Change
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
Journal Article
As a reclusive artist, she’s a mysterious figure, revered, mythologized, and missed with a fervor that most artists would marvel at.
The Deschooling Dialogues: Grief, Collapse, and Mysticism
Journal Article
Alnoor: ...There is no doubt that we are in the midst of unprecedented moment where there is no return to old certainties. Part of this pain that we are facing in the world is a pathway toward transformation. Or will we perish in the horror of the onslaught that we are facing?
The Predicament of Knowledge: A Challenge for Culture Design
Article
I call it Culture Design and have written about it elsewhere.13 Its central tenet is that culture can be thought of as a complex adaptive system that flows and changes through the mechanisms of cultural evolution. Understand these fields of knowledge and it becomes possible to birth a science of intentional social change that gets applied to the hard problems of the world.
The Power of Wetiko: Looking in the Mirror to Solve the Global Crisis
Article
Given that we have invited people from all over the world to ‘see wetiko’—because by seeing it, we gain power over it—it is only fair that we do the same ourselves. So this is how I personally see wetiko and why I find it so enlightening and powerful.