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There’s a particular kind of intellectual vertigo that comes from encountering an idea that reorganizes everything you thought you understood about a subject. That happened to me recently, reading Zak Stein’s argument that education itself might be the metacrisis: the single, underlying condition generating the tangle of ecological, political, and

The first three chapters of Terry Patten’s A New Republic of the Heart have done something I didn’t expect this deep into a course on the metacrisis: they brought me some optimism. Not naive optimism, the kind that looks away from the wreckage, but the harder-won kind that comes from actually naming the wreckage clearly enough to see a way through

The rise of technologies and the relatively free movement of people and goods have paved the way for a globalized world. All individuals and organizations are more connected globally than ever; this quality gave rise to emergence. Emergent properties of a system appear when the property that arose is greater than the sum of its parts. For example,