Tag: DoomerOptimism

  • Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush

    Collapse Now and Avoid The Rush

    “We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or put ourselves to sleep.” Pema Chodron (1996) When Things Fall Apart This short post is largely a personal reflection on barriers that keep us from thinking about the possibility (inevitably?) of social collapse. Unbelievably this is the first post of mine for nearly 9 months!…

  • Doomer Optimism and Narrative Dynamics

    This is a series of tweets I publised today as a response to Ashley Colby’s (@RizomaFieldSchool) tweet on hand-washing clothes and dishes. The tweet acted as a perfect attractor for many of the ideas about complexity, economics, narrative and pattern language that I’m researching for my PhD Comps Exam and developing towards the research element.…

  • Storytelling the Adjacent Possible (part 1)

    Storytelling the Adjacent Possible (part 1)

    In which I carve spoons , listen to podcasts and take a brief, meandering walk through post-pandemic society via ‘”doomer optimisim”, situated cognition, Cynefin, beauty and the on-going wonderful experiment at Mount Wolfe Farm. I spent a lovely few hours yesterday making carving billets from a bit of sugar maple and roughing out an eating…