My guest today is Jonathan Rowson. Jonathan is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Perspectiva. A London-based charity that describes itself as "A collective of expert generalists working on an urgent one-hundred-year project to understand the relationship between systems, souls, and society in theory and practice".
He was Director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts from 2009-2016, where he authored a range of influential research reports on behavior change, climate change, and spirituality, and curated and chaired public events. In 2018 he was awarded an Open Society Fellowship to apply his philosophical and strategic approach to challenges faced by the human rights movement.
Jonathan holds a first-class degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University and did his post-graduate work in theoretical psychology at Harvard and Bristol Universities, including a Ph.D. on what it means to become wiser.
He is also a chess Grandmaster and was the British Chess Champion for three consecutive years from 2004-2006 and worked as part of former World Champion Viswanathan Anand's analytical team in 2008. He is the author of five books, including most recently The Moves that Matter – A Grandmaster on the Game of Life which was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Jonathan’s Links & Resources:
Perspectiva
Substack
Twitter
Prefixing the World by Jonathan Rowson
Tasting the Pickle: Ten flavours of meta-crisis and the appetite for a new civilisation by Jonathan Rowson
Living in the Metacrisis with Jonathan Rowson short film by Katie Teague
The Seven Deadly Sins of Chess by Jonathan Rowson
The Moves that Matter – A Grandmaster on the Game of Life by Jonathan Rowson
Other Books, Articles, Videos Mentioned:
Education is the Metacrisis by Zak Stein
The Psychological Drivers of the Metacrisis: John Vervaeke, Iain McGilchrist, Daniel Schmachtenberger
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future by Milbank and Pabst
Rowan Williams Review of The Politics of Virtue
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Timothy Morton
Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia Bourgeault
Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism by Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification podcast hosted by Nate Hagens
The Politics of Waking Up by Indra Adnan
Zoom Conversations vs In-Person: Brain Activity Tells a Different Tale
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