Deep Adaptation – Page 2 – Spontaneous Presence

Reconciliation I: Peace as Rebellion

The fourth of the Deep Adaptation 4Rs framework, along with Resilience, Restoration and Relinquishing, is Reconciliation. We imagine its meaning

In a chilling, factually grounded and provocative 2015 book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton describes his tour

By Vera de Chalambert PUBLISHED IN Kosmosjounal: FALL | WINTER 2017 She appeared out of nowhere, as if from an

By Vera de Chalambert PUBLISHED IN FALL | WINTER 2017 When in the summer of 2015 I saw the breathtaking

What are we called to do in this time of collapse? Work harder? Think faster? Compartmentalize and multitask better? No.

(excerpted from the Dark Mountain Manifesto) The myth of progress is founded on the myth of nature. The first tells

There are many ways to describe the human drama at this moment. We can talk about psychology or brain function,

Jem Bendell has been criticized for promoting what some call “The Doomasphere,” –a dark vision of the future–though until now

If we have no fear, there is no thinking. No conceptual mind. And vice versa. No thinking, no fear. —Tsoknyi

Is Deep Adaptation simply scary talk? Unscientific hyperbole? Depressing fatalism? The irony of climate hyperbole is that while many people