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- Title
Reconceiving the Self and the Other: Possibilities Beyond the Seduction of Popularist and Authoritarian Polarities.
- Authors
McAllum, Michael
- Abstract
This article asserts that the recent attraction towards popularist and authoritarian solutions, that give voice to the fear of the other are merely the product of a system doing what it is designed to do. Given this context, it argues that dialectic thinking is insufficient as the basis for dialogue; that the conflation of certainty with security is illusory and that these multiple manifestations are symptomatic of systemic disintegration. Hence it postulates that it is necessary to imagine narratives of a 'next social system', that draw on the wisdom of all knowledge ecologies, in order to change the dynamics of anticipation and aspiration in a reconstituted pluriverse.
- Subjects
AUTHORITARIANISM; SCHISM; POLITICAL systems; CAPITALISM; DIALECTIC; POPULISM
- Publication
Journal of Futures Studies, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 3, p15
- ISSN
1027-6084
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6531/JFS.2017.21(3).A15