![]() ![]() (If you trust the people, they become trustworthy.) ![]() There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this moment can have. ![]() ![]() There is always enough time for the right work. (The large is a reflection of the small.) Reading notes Change is constantĪdrienne maree brown outlines the principles of emergent strategy, drawing from the Earthseed verses in Octavia Butler’s Parables series, as well as other sources as diverse as Bruce Lee, Lao Tzu, and Rihanna: What thoughts are you thinking with? Reading and rereading and rereread. I found her philosophies about transforming the world compelling, but even more than that, I was awakened by her choice to read Octavia Butler as gospel. The book is meandering-fittingly, as she sketches out the elements and principles of what she calls “emergent strategy,” it’s only after reading and rereading many of her passages, incantations, and reflections that her ideas really begin to emerge. brown uses the work of Octavia Butler-specifically, the concept of “shaping God” from the Earthseed verses in the Parables series-to document a strategy for building a healing and sustainable approach to the world. “I read sci-fi and visionary fiction as political, sacred, and philosophical text, and I engage with others who read it that way,” writes adrienne maree brown, in this astonishing, radical, and humane book (39). Author adrienne maree brown Publisher AK Press Copyright 2017 Collections Reading The canon Liberation Buy this book Bookshop ![]()
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