Practices:Crazy Futures

Crazy Futures
[patent pending | open source]

To be developed as a methodology.

Exploring the unforeseeable?

Expressing the inexpressible?

orthodox, heterodox, doxa, outside the boundaries of doxa

Getting outside our own comfort zones

Do we need to go to ash before we reform (reborn as phoenix)? Does a new, optimistic/preferred future *require* tearing down all of the old?

Alice in Wonderland: 'six impossible things before breakfast'

What would the future look like if you were living on a Moebius strip / a Klein bottle?

Are we stuck in recursive patterns? the macrohistory crowd might well say so -- recurring patterns of history.

How do we find the 'break points' of the loop? what would we use for leverage?

Do 'crazy futures' lose their utility once they are considered 'normal' or an ordinary thing to do?

How does this connect to discontinuities?

Are crazy futures business as usual in 'post-normal times'? See Zia's article on 'post-normal times'.