Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I believe that all of us, from those involved in planning an ecological transition to everyday people who will decide whether it moves forward or not, must cultivate our ability to think critically. And not just as a tool we use sometimes, but as a core part of our identity.
Modernity is not time-tested, evolution-approved. It will fail. The question becomes: how do we respond to the failure?
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.
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
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.
Political Will will not feed us. Nor will he make it possible to sustain the systems that rely on extravagant use — and waste — of resources. To most of the world, this is obvious.
One way to measure the change I’ve undergone in the last several years is via wasps. That’s right: wasps.
It’s as if I woke up one morning realizing that I grew up in a society of human supremacists, that I was one too, and that I no longer want to live that way.
Legislation is not enacted in a vacuum. Successful advocacy strategies begin with understanding the political context in which proposed climate-related policies are to be debated and acted upon.
The relevance of what we do at TIPPSE was recently made clear by the publication of Cyborgian Marc Andreesen’s The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Our work countering this manifesto, and many others produced by Phalse Prophets, are an example of Brandolini’s Law, which states: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
How is it possible to maintain perspective on the polycrisis? Dr. Lyla June Johnston, who is of Navajo, Cheyenne, and European lineages, has brilliantly woven her knowledge into her public speaking and multigenre art, inspiring international audiences towards personal, collective, and ecological healing.
