Books

Book Series in Process

A fundamental contradiction lies at the core of our socioeconomic system which is illuminated by Process Philosophy, Buddhism and Cognitive Systems Science. At the intersection of these fields lies an emerging worldview that can describes why our system is fundamentally unable to address the meta-crisis. Each of these fields point to the nature of impermanence,  emptiness, and no-self, and suggest how to navigate and orient to such a reality. It ultimately questions the nature of representation by describing a world of relational processes not products. However, our current socioeconomic system places its axioms precisely contrary to this, it requires individuated selves trading products for the representation of value, and to organize through representative government. For this reason we arrive at a value system which is out of alignment with what is collectively meaningful, where in theory value should be a product of meaning, where meaning is a process.

As we've rapidly scaled human collectives we have found ourselves increasingly in a Product-Oriented Economic system, one that claims dominance over increasing parts of our lives, attention, and the world. This has occured to such an extent that we have become confined to the representationalist/ naive materialist perspective devoid of processes, meaning and relations; leveraging Process Philosophy the book series can be thought of as a Manifesto for a Process Economy (Economy is taken in the broadest context of the operating system of our human collective). In short a system founded on meaning instead of value, prefigurative culture instead of representative politics, commons instead of ownership, and relation instead of transaction. 

I am commited to understanding and enacting this in all the ways we show up in relation to eachother, as such each book in the series will follow analogously to the Noble Eightfold Path to uncover its convergences with Applied Process Philosophy, and Applied Enactive Cognitive Science, which I refer to as Effective Cognition. It explores the relational processes involved in the steps of the path to deepen our embodiment of systems change and ultimately arrive at a General Theory of Collective Agency.

Book I is currently undergoing review and publication. It outlines the framework to lay the context for the series to address the problematic operating system of our human collective which is driving the existential risks to all life on earth. It is a solutions oriented approach showcasing new organizing principles in better alignment with a thriving psycho-socio-ecological system, and explores the logic behind our current value system and the space of possibility of organizing around meaning.

Book II is currently being researched and written. Intends to deepens the philosophical, contemplative and phenomenological basis of Applied Process Philosophy and General Theory of Collective Agency, and addresses theory of mind, knowledge, and consciousness and its implications within education, internet and AI.

Books II and IV analogous to Right Speech and Action has some preliminary work done and aims integrate this deeper understanding of the General Theory of Collective Agency and apply it. Therefore it may or may not take the shape of a book, preferring a more non-linear approach to communication and involvement. Our activism must go beyond understanding and communicating the problems or solutions within ourselves and world, but instead question the nature of self and world in such a way as to enact change on the whole.

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