Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In this final Frankly of 2023, Nate outlines some global themes that are worth keeping an eye on in 2024. From climate change to domestic and global politics to an unstable financial system, world events continue to converge.
For over a decade, Ana María and David have led their community to restore Mexico’s desert mangroves with dedication, experimentation, and plenty of heart.
Our entire cultural pattern of making sense of things is rooted in the sense of our being separate from one another, isolated and alone.
I believe we’re going to have to address the very root of the metacrisis where it emerges from the ground of its pseudo-being.
Following another summer of record heat waves, droughts, floods, and wildfires across vast swaths of the planet, the injuries done to the planet by the Industrial Growth Society have never been so conclusive. As I grapple with collapse, I wanted to speak with Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, an Indigenous Pamiri from Tajikistan, who has lived through it and come out the other side.
Short for “fossil fuel obsolescence,” the larger concept / narrative I provided was one in which our civilization continues to design itself around (in accordance with) the premise of cheap fossil fuels (measured both in economic and ecological terms), even though those days are well behind us.
Informed by the knowledge that leather originated in food systems, I aimed to explore how that connection could influence my work as a designer. I decided that in order to find answers to my questions, I’d need to follow it as a product from the field and confront its transformation into food and fibre.
There are many aspects to paradigm shift. Several have been described in this Primer. Everyone can expand the adventure and share what we are learning from own experiences. This Primer is exactly that. Add to it. Share it with others!
Fortunately, the “right to repair” movement has made serious headway in challenging the contrived obstacles to repair, and in winning legal rights for repair commons to exist.
We can barely even begin to imagine an amodern / postmodern / metamodern relational culture. But imagining it we must.
Autonomous vehicles as currently deployed face a conceptual flaw that can’t be overcome
Since late last year, I’ve been writing a book series that’s meant to help lay the groundwork for a full-scale response to our ecological crises by deepening our democracy.
The project of direct democracy, being a socio-political system that is incompatible with the Nation-State-Capital complex, implies radical change to people’s relations to physical space.
