Posit Newsletter #01
Introducing Posit / Looking past the futuristic / Further reading
Welcome to Posit
Posit is about exploring the many ways that our common sense of the futuristic stands in the way of a better future. It is dedicated to presenting alternative visions of futurity that, though somewhat less familiar than robots and rocket ships, are reflective of our true nature as Earthly beings, and a future that can last.
Since the industrial revolution, the terms of human progress have largely been set by unsustainable, extractive industries, often premised upon environmental destruction and profound social inequality. As global biodiversity collapses, climatic systems falter, and social conditions worsen, it's clear that the pursuit of the 'world of tomorrow' promised by wealthy industrial interests is leading to ruin.
This newsletter will present alternative and counterintuitive forms of futurity. Every month, it will gather original and curated articles, interviews and insights from thinkers and practitioners, histories, book reviews, and various ephemera gathered in the course of my own research and reporting. Taken together, it will show that a better world need not be innovated into being, but rather rediscovered and recovered.