What is Metapolitical? by Nowick Gray [adapted from the introduction to Metapolitical: Practicing Our Human Future (2021)] Metapolitical holds meaning above and beyond, yet also deeper than the conventional understanding of politics. Not confined to party or tribe, it speaks to common social concerns, and reaches beyond the bounded condition…
Category: Nature
Sketches of Thistopia
‘a story of a time, fifty years from now, when a man is arrested and taken off for clinical study because he insists on looking at un-televised reality, and breathing un-air-conditioned air.’ —Ray Bradbury (1973) Nuremberg, BC Have you ever been to Nuremberg? BC, I mean. It’s a little-traveled place,…
The Living Art of Improvisation
The Living Art of Improvisation I might say that my life story, in the living, was one long improvisation. We might say the same about any life, as we adapt day by day and moment by moment to whatever life throws at us, as a matter of survival or measure…
The Net and the Open Sky
The Net and the Open Sky I see a net against the open sky. Are we the net, are we the sky? We witness both, one against the other. Are we caught in the net, or free to fly? News is dire, prospects bleak. The reset button has been pushed;…