"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"--Page [4] of cover.
It seems a little paradoxical to wish for more structure from a book from an anarchist press, but that's the way I feel. I do feel like there are good ideas in this book, but they're buried in a sort of meandering self-actualization memoir. Not that that's a bad thing for a book to be, but that's not what I was looking for.
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