I’ve been brainstorming with folks at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (big thanks to Garry Peterson) to come up with 6 iconic objects that illustrate 6 key qualities of resilient systems.
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On A Lark
What I want to do in this post, just for fun (well, more than that), is use the rules of this game to show how hard it is to make a strong and clear case for a point that would still be tough to make if I could use all words. I think/hope we can learn from it.
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The quiet breakdown of relational contact
We’re in a period where relational patterns are shaping how people cope and also how they relate to power. Naming these patterns matters because they are often carried privately, interpreted as personal failure rather than understood as responses to shared conditions.
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The Western Mythos – Our Monster’s Spawn: Part II – The Theological Architecture of Modernity
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