• Putin’s “Master Narrative”

    Putin’s “Master Narrative”

    The importance of stories and narratives in our sense-making and deliberative process cannot be over-estimated. Stories are “the primary form by which human experience is made meaningful…Narrative meaning is a cognitive process that organises human experiences into temporally meaningful episodes.” (Polkinghorne, 1988) “ You start to answer the age-old question ’ What am I to…

  • 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.…

  • First Thoughts on The Dawn Of Everything by Wengrow & Graeber

    This is a huge book- both in its ground-breaking content and its physical size! Here the authors challenge the entrenched narratives that the pre-agricultural world was either a primitive Eden of small egalitarian hunter-gatherers (Rosseau) or nasty, brutush and short, requiring heirachy and governance to quell our worst natures (Hobbes). For someone like me researching…

  • Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.

    Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.

    I let my intuition explore connections between shifts in seasonal farming patterns, Graber and Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything’, Tai Chi and Panarchy, and the importance of metaphors, stories and narratives in understanding and action.

  • Pattern

    Pattern

    Donk,DinkBamboo chimes in a gentle breezeTing, tangSteel chimes a two tone melody.A rose-breasted hummingbird buzzes byFeeder-boundThe house wren insists the woodstack is hersCrickets channeling the background cosmic radiationA persistent click-drone as old as the universe.A phalanx of Canada geese heading south trumpet their exitThe doppler groan of passing cars on Old Church and Mount PleasantThe…