---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kenneth McLeod <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:40 PM Subject: CULTURAL NARRATIVES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE To: [email protected] *“Paradigms are the sources of systems. From them, from shared social agreements about the nature of reality, come system goals and information flows, feedbacks, stocks, flows and everything else about systems.”* Donella Meadows *REGISTER HERE* <https://www.humanitix.com/event/cultural-narratives-in-the-anthropocene/> Our cultural and personal stories (reflecting and reproducing deeply held beliefs, values, paradigms and worldviews) are the foundations upon which we construct our ways of making meaning. The dawn of the Anthropocene demonstrates the dysfunctional and incomplete nature of the dominant cultural stories of the modern globalised world. It points to a need for new narratives that can give rise to life regenerating cultures and social systems. For example, stories of ‘perpetual growth’ and ‘progress’ on a finite planet cannot be sustained; stories of ‘separation’ suggest humans stand outside of nature. These stories exist in the deep patterning of our collective culture, families and inner subjective realm. New narratives are emerging through social movements, thought leaders and spiritual leaders, inter-weaving through our communities and institutions alongside and perhaps subverting the entrenched stories underpinning the status quo. Fortunately, our cultural narratives exist as a dynamic human-created process; adapted, shared and reinforced over time to meet our needs at both individual and collective levels. As we enter the Anthropocene Transition, we are challenged to examine our cultural narratives, particularly those of the dominant west, in order to become more aware of the underlying sources of our taken-for-granted but often incomplete worldviews. It’s time to turn our attention to the new narratives that are emerging at the grassroots and from the periphery and to consider how we can support their evolution towards life-regenerating stories that could better serve us and our non-human sisters and brothers. This workshop may be the first in an ongoing inquiry into cultural narratives in the Anthropocene. In this first conversation, we will seek to map the systems of existing and emerging narratives to begin forming composite pictures of our world-views, how they came to be, their consequences, and their self-reinforcing qualities. We will also consider what the purpose and agenda might be for a continuing inquiry into cultural narratives in and for the Anthropocene Transition and who is energised and wishing to take this further. *Date & time: Tuesday July 25 • 6:00-8:30pm* *Venue: CB08.04.003 (level 4, room 003), UTS Business School, 14-28 Ultimo Road, Ultimo 2007* *NOTE: The number of participants will be limited to please register early - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER <https://www.humanitix.com/event/cultural-narratives-in-the-anthropocene/>* We look forward to you joining us, *David Pointon & Kat Dunn* Anthropocene Transition Project, UTS Business School, Sydney Registration: https://www.humanitix.com/event/cultural-narratives-in- the-anthropocene/ ------------------------------ *Enquiries for Cultural Narratives in the Anthropocene:* - David Pointon, - +61412199648 - [email protected] http://www.ageoftransition.org/home ------------------------------ IF YOU WISH TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] <http://[email protected]> WITH ' *UNSUBSCRIBE*' IN THE SUBJECT LINE -- ------------------------------ UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/