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The more of our work we give away for free, the more we create a different (and kinder) culture.
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The more of our work we give away for free, the more we create a different (and kinder) culture.
Belonging
If we're going to pull together as a country, we need to get back to our rituals.
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Hard Art
Two new absurd interventions in the world this week: a climate comedy novel, and a series of dialogues on assemblies.
Democracy
Our friend and collaborator David Bent, founder of Atelier of What’s Next, dismayed like many with Trump’s terrible mathematics and with the commentariat’s forgetfulness of the wider agenda, weighs in with some sound algebra of his own.
Activism
It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
Activism
Right and left have failed us, and the centre cannot hold. Are you tired of pretending the slo-mo disaster movie doesn’t star us? And are you ready to do the previously unthinkable? Part one of two: the broken models of behaviour we need to escape.
It’s time to do the previously unthinkable: get over ourselves, and start actually working with each other.
Right and left have failed us, and the centre cannot hold. Are you tired of pretending the slo-mo disaster movie doesn’t star us? And are you ready to do the previously unthinkable? Part one of two: the broken models of behaviour we need to escape.
A plan to broaden people’s perspectives by offering a new vision for what the future could be.
Those of us who have been around the movement for many years can think back to a time we would tell ourselves, “When rich people in LA start losing their homes, things will change”...
David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules
This is Absurd Intelligence’s inaugural guest post: by Liz Slade, the first woman leading the Unitarian General Assembly in its 96 year history
A plan to broaden people’s perspectives by offering a new vision for what the future could be.
How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
There’s a clear strategy behind the character assassination of climate activists – it’s our job to counter it
Exclusive insights into climate politics from the diary of a Net-Zed-er
A year-long investigation into provoking emotional realisations of the risks we’re in, in a way that leaves people feeling equipped to act.
Announcing our new columnist: we are delighted to be serialising Ed's private diary each Monday on Absurd Intelligence.
Using the lesser known Greek concepts of time, Kairos and Aion, to save us from the tyranny of Chronos.
Those of us who have been around the movement for many years can think back to a time we would tell ourselves, “When rich people in LA start losing their homes, things will change”...
We are the whopping majority. Ordinary, good people who want the best for each other. And we care deeply about the climate.
A reminder that we can, and will, together forge a better world.
The future needs to be constructed differently. It needs new systems that won’t lead to the same outcomes. If the future’s going to work at all, we need new decision-making systems