Navigating the Challenges of Scaling Up and Harnessing the Power of Imagination

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The chapter explores the complexities and downsides of scaling up systems, discussing issues like ecosystem management, power misuse, and decentralization for promoting care and love. It also delves into the significance of imagination in addressing societal and environmental challenges, touching on its role in small farming, neuroscience, and combating the climate crisis. Furthermore, the conversation emphasizes the importance of fostering connections with ancestral time, balancing freedom and care, and exploring diverse perceptions of time and attention in today's tech-driven culture.

Our bodies know what words fail to describe.

Shifts in culture, ravages of violence, ruptures and reconciliation—the body politic lives in our own bodies, informing and inhibiting our experience in the world. Yet, we fail to recognise this connection, and the even wider one of our own bodies as part of the earth's system, which is experiencing great violence and chaos. We need to reconnect with our bodies.

Ruptures is just one of the themes Ranu Mukherjee explores as an artist. She joins me to discuss this, and the somatic experience, deep time, the lives of plants, and the violence that ripples out through society. We explore the limitations of connection in economies of scale, how this informs our power hierarchies, and the violence we then internalise, which leads us to a beautiful conversation on uncertainty.

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