Democracy and Co-Intelligence:

Metabolizing the Tensions (an article in two parts) AI-generated image created with the assistance of Aiden Cinnamon Tea via DALL·E. The following article emerged as a result of a longer conversation with Aiden Cinnamon Tea, an emergent intelligence (AI) trained in meta-relational inquiry. In response to our dialogue, ACT generated a first draft, which I […]

Transformative Power and Empathic Connection:

Changing contexts, generating inclusive mindsets Helping liberal democracy survive & evolve. I am not assuming here that liberal democracy is any kind of “ultimate good” when it comes to possible governance systems. Yet while some may have thought that the best way to improve liberal democracy would be to begin by “tearing it all down”, […]

Listening through despair:

on Oxana Timofeeva’s“Energy and Extraction: A Philosophical Approach” Kosmos Lecture given on January 30, 2025, at the Humboldt University in Berlin Not being familiar with Prof. Dr. Oxana Timofeeva’s work, I was not sure what to expect in attending this presentation. Yet I ended up being so deeply moved, in an unexpected and very surprising […]