"Maybe the state of the world makes you feel hopeless. Maybe you feel like our problems are so big and there is nothing you can do to make a difference. Maybe you're feeling isolated from your community, facing everything alone. If this sounds familiar then this book is for you. adrienne maree brown uses the philosophy of Octavia Butler to imagine how we can work together to shape a better world."
Publisher AK Press
Publication Date 2017-04-18
Section Politics / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Marnie M.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781849352604
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.
