The PolyOpportunity Is Beginning This Week!

As we’re witnessing the current world order blowing up, certain types of ideas are in high demand: those that

1) help us navigate the current chaos

AND

2) inspire us to build something new for the long term—something more exciting and humane than extreme capitalism and tech-populism.

It is becoming evident there is no going back to linear progress. No use mounting a nostalgic defense of our traditional beliefs and institutions. Instead, we must focus on breaking free from distraction, addiction, and extraction.

We must imagine a new economy, a new politics.

And we must realize that, above all, we’re in the business of creating a new reality. Regardless of the transactionalism, nihilism, or even cruelty that have beset the current zeitgeist, this work is crucial—and it is beautiful.

The PolyOpportunity—a joint initiative by the House of Beautiful Business, the Acosta Institute and The Holon Institute in response the polycrisis—is the space for this work.

We're going all out, and you’re invited to go all in with us:

• Take part in four in-person gatherings in three incredible cities—Berlin, Tangier, Istanbul—as well as at a former monastery in Hudson Valley/New York
• Attend six virtual forums (Open Houses), starting this Thursday with a 90-minute session on "Open Curation." Sign up for free here.
• Enroll in a 12-week online learning course

The Everything Pass?(2995 Euro) is the best way to take advantage of it all. This golden ticket brings you to all four gatherings and all online programming, saving you twenty percent when you buy all at once. Plus, you’ll be part of a vibrant cohort traveling through The PolyOpportunity together. There are only 50 Everything Passes left, so secure yours now.?Alternatively, if you want to pick and choose, please see all the options on our website.

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Join the world’s most beautiful business community and engage with an outstanding lineup of speakers and performers

We’re thrilled to announce the first batch (many more to come!):

Douglas Rushkoff – the legendary digital thinker extraordinaire who’s always one step ahead of the game

Agnes Callard – the philosopher and author who challenges conventions with a case for living a Socratic life of “untimely questions”

Carissa Véliz – the philosopher and ethicist who has long warned of the personal effects of unbridled tech power and believes DOGE might come for you next

Bayo Akomolafe – the post-humanist philosopher who views AI as a technology of humiliation and believes we need a new “parapolitics”

Boris Shoshitaishvili – the Berggruen Fellow with a background in evolutionary biology, comparative literature, and ancient Greek poetry who explores planetary identities

Maggie Jackson – the author and journalist who helps us navigate the chaotic present using uncertainty

Matt Klein – the cultural theorist who can tell us about “Dark Mode” and what online pornography user data has taught him about what we really want

Lori Baldwin, a.k.a. NEKRA, the embodied AI who helps humans come to terms with their own mortality

Nayeema Raza – the journalist, filmmaker, and host of Smart Girl Dumb Questions, which just premiered with guest Mark Cuban, who tackles the biggest ideas from simple starting points

Sophie Strand – the troubadour animist who weaves together mystical and somatic intelligence in her writing

Neil Theise – the complexity and consciousness scholar and professor of pathology who has pioneered Adult Stem Cell Plasticity

John Fullerton – the investment banker turned conscious capitalist who makes a passionate case for regenerative economics

Timothée Parrique – the economist and leading figure of the degrowth movement

Gaya Herrington – the wellbeing economist who believes that we need a much broader concept of value

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou – the economist who believes capitalism has always been post-truth and views distortion as a feature not a bug

Jonathan F. P. Rose – the green affordable housing developer and co-founder of the Garrison Institute who advances a moral economy

Sophie Scott-Brown – the historian who studies anarchist movements and how they can help us today

Alexis Crews – the tech and geopolitics strategist and former Meta advisor who has studied authoritarianism

Roger Berkowitz – the political theorist and founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Institute who helps us understand the connection between loneliness and totalitarianism

Zoe Scaman?– the incisive futurist and strategist?who takes on corporate bullshitters on their own turf

D Graham Burnett – the attention researcher and activist who proposes compelling strategies against “human fracking”

Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell – the social economist and artistic activist who is devoted to the future of African museums and the restitution of cultural artefacts from colonial contexts

Samuel Stubblefield – the anti-disciplinary artist who merges unusual materials and conditions with humans

Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou – the architect and anthropologist who promotes the idea of “LowHighTech”

Laura Pe?a Zanatta – the dancer, artist, researcher, and scholar of Yoruba culture who explores the rituals at the end of the world

NK Chaudhary – the Indian social entrepreneur legend who built Jaipur Rugs as a “healing organization”

Canberk Ula? – the composer and musician who plays the Duduk flute, “the loneliest instrument in the world,” like nobody else

View the full line-up

See you in Berlin, New York, Tangier, Istanbul, and online!

Tim

Ps. The PolyOpportunity is a nonprofit initiative, and you can become a Patron and support us with a tax-deductible donation. Just contact me if that might be of interest.

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