REFLECTIONS FROM A WARM PAUSE 4 Nature is the touchstone of our age. As a metaphor it is ubiquitous; a reference point for everything from selling shampoo, to addressing climate change, healing minds and fixing bodies. It is a touchstone for beauty and has an instantly recognised aesthetic. It is…

Emergence poems #3 Progressivism collapses to naivete Naive ideas conflate with the sacred Everyone’s sacred idea is now a brand Gaia is the opium of the chuntering classes Fascism is a garb of endless disguises Collapse is a story sad moralists tell Ecology is a buzzword, flying high Tradition is…

REFLECTIONS FROM A WARM PAUSE 3 To imagine beautiful is hard. The contexts are set against us — or we are set against the contexts; either and both — they bring us to the same place. Some humans are imagining beauty right now; creating little utopias of spiritual privilege, with…

short fiction from unpsychology magazine — This is the fourth story from the Watertime. It appears in the 8th edition of Unpsychology — an Anthology of Warm Data (available free in digital form from www.unpsychology.org and in a print edition from https://www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/collections/new/products/unpsychology-issue-8-an-anthology-of-warm-data These stories are set in a future — in a place a bit like…

REFLECTIONS FROM A WARM PAUSE 2 — I am asking myself about emergence. What is already emergent? What is yet to emerge? What is already dormant? What is to be created deep in the between. When there is trouble, how does this get experienced and how then does it percolate and contextualise with the ever-shifting relational flows…

REFLECTIONS FROM A WARM PAUSE 1 — There’s an idea of the ordinary that is articulated and embedded in the everyday. Let’s expand. In social media world the everyday is a chimera – an invention. …

PART OF UNPSYCHOLOGY’S WARM DATA ANTHOLOGY SERIES BY MAINUNAH MOSLI You can find a version of this article in Unpsychology #8: an anthology of warm data. Download the full magazine FREE from www.unpsychology.org This piece is my way of combining multiple contexts that exist for most of us. Water in its abundance…

PART OF UNPSYCHOLOGY’S WARM DATA ANTHOLOGY SERIES BY RICH BLUNDELL AND RITA LEDUC The following video project comprises ecological interpretations, by ecologist Rich Blundell, of artworks by Rita Leduc. You can find a version of this article in Unpsychology 8: The Warm Data edition. Download it free from www.unpsychology.org Oika is the relational intelligence of nature …