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Reframing the Imaginable Key to the Future?


Reframing the Imaginable Key to the Future? (Non-Kairos references)

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Carse, James P.  Finite and Infinite Games. Simon and Schuster, 2013.

Cerulo, Karen A.  Never Saw It Coming: cultural challenges to envisioning the worst. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Diamond, Jared M.  Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin, 2005.

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Smile Or Die: how positive thinking fooled America and the world. Granta Books, 2010. [summary]

Ehrenreich, Barbara.  Bright-sided: how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America. Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas.  The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization. Island Press, 2006.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas.  Commanding Hope: the power we have to renew a world in peril. Knopf, 2020.

Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark.  Philosophy In The Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books, 1999.

McAnany, Patricia A. / Yoffee, Norman  (Eds.).    Questioning Collapse: human resilience, ecological vulnerability and the aftermath of empire. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Michael, Donald N.  Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn. Miles River Press, 1997.

Oreskes, Naomi / Conway, Erik M.  Merchants of Doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming. Bloomsbury Press, 2010.

Ormerod, Paul.  Why Most Things Fail: evolution, extinction and economics. Wiley, 2005. [extracts]

Ramo, Joshua Cooper.  The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Randers, Jorgen.  2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years. Chelsea Green, 2012.

Saul, John Ralston.  The Unconscious Civilization. Free Press, 1995.

Tainter, Joseph A.  Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Random House, 2010.

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. Random House, 2013.

von Weizsaecker, Ernst / Wijkman, Anders.  Come On!. Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet. Springer, 2018.