Emergent Strategy
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
AK Press · Print & ebook · April 28, 2017
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
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- Who it’s for
- A thoughtful lens on change, identity, and the politics of living together.
- Genres
- Activism & Social Justice, Feminist Theory & Criticism, Futures & Foresight
- Published
- AK Press, April 28, 2017
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In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. 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. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns.
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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. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
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A thoughtful lens on change, identity, and the politics of living together.
Come here for
- social-change thinking with a book-club pulse
- Black-centered, world-shaping language
Expect
- conceptual, discussable framing
- less manifesto, more usable worldview
Where it sits
| Activism & Social Justice | 78% |
|---|---|
| Feminist Theory & Criticism | 43% |
| Futures & Foresight | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Spiritual Healing
- Radical Politics
- Futures & Foresight
- Authors
- adrienne maree brown
- Publisher
- AK Press
- Published
- April 28, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Spiritual Healing