#GETTINGINTOGOODTROUBLE

We need to be fully present with each other, people of all stripes, to hammer out structures strong enough to withstand increasing pressure facing the planet and humankind.

Source(s)?

Donna Haraway ‘Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene.’

Stuart Russell ‘Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control’

Five things John Lewis taught us about getting into good trouble. Brookings Institute

A JF take

We live in turbid times, says Donna Haraway, and our task is to make trouble, to ‘stir up’ response, settle things and ‘rebuild quiet places’. To do that we need to stay with the trouble, be fully present. John Lewis called this ‘good trouble, necessary trouble’. Stuart Russell, in the same vein, argues that the biggest problem is actually us ‘nasty, envy-driven, irrational, inconsistent, unstable…’ But we need each other, and we need ideas from everywhere: psychology, economics, moral philosophy, to ‘melt, reform, and hammer those ideas into a structure that will be strong enough to resist..enormous strain’. Sustaining and securing connections, with a common purpose, with each other is vital to our future relationships both with other living systems and with machines.?

Pairing notes

Richard Powers ‘The Overstory’ is magnificent on this, on how we, the overstory and the understory are entangled: 'It thrills her to sit at meals and be part of the laughter and shared data, the dizzy network trading in discoveries. The whole group of them looking… Birders, geologists, microbiologists, ecologists, evolutionary zoologists, soil experts, high priests of water. Each of them knows minute, local truths. Some work on projects designed to run for two hundred years or more. Some are straight out of Ovid, humans on their way to turning into greener things. Together, they form one great symbiotic association, like the ones they study.'

Next Normal principles: #RENEWAL #TIME #NETWORKSTRENGTH #BELONGING #PLAY #TRANSLATE