Crisis is a fascinating character, and we hope to keep talking, but the task in this post is merely to understand the idea well enough to grasp my main contention here, which is that meta, not poly, should be our prefix of choice. These prefixes that seek to qualify what kind of crisis we are in are not inert, they are psychoactive and influence our sense of possibility. It matters that we get it right.
JONATHAN ROWSON AND PERSPECTIVA
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