Books

Book Series in Process

A fundamental contradiction lies at the core of our socioeconomic system which seeks to increase fragility and fragmentation and is incapable of addressing the Meta-Crisis. At the intersection of Process Philosophy, Cybernetics, Buddhism and Cognitive Systems Science lies an emerging worldview that can both diagnose the common throughline in the problematic worldviews and failing institutions, and enact a way forward. 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, as our value system is 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 local-first system founded on meaning rather than value, prefigurative culture rather than representative politics, relation rather than transaction, commons rather than ownership, oriented towards proactivity rather than productivity, and motivated by concern rather than desire.   

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 an Enactive Meta-Model of Agency.

The book 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.

My focus now is to continue this research in graduate school to deepen the philosophical, Meta-Cybernetic, contemplative and sociological inquiry as to help enact and coordinate Process Economies.

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