Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Paperback)
by Adrienne Maree Brown
Description
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
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Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live.
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Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen.
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This is a resolutely materialist "spirituality" based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
About the Author
Adrienne Maree Brown, the Co-Editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, doula and pleasure activist living in Detroit. She is a student of emergence, somatics, transformation and science fiction. She is part of the training body of generative somatics, and coodinating the Just Films Narrative Shift Program for Allied Media Projects. She is the 2015-2016 Ursula le Guin Fellowship, the Knight Arts Challenge for 2013 and 2015, a Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for 2013, in the inaugural Speculative Fiction Workshop at Voices of Our Nation 2014, and a graduate of the Clarion Sci-Fi and Fantasy Workshop in 2015.
Product Details
Category: Activism Studies
Language: English
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1849352607
ISBN-13: 978-1849352604
Publisher: AK Press
Date Published: April 18, 2017
Pages: 280
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