by Shaun Chamberlin | Apr 30, 2020 | All Posts, Articles
Originally published in the Spring 2020 edition of STIR magazine
Extracts from David Fleming's extraordinary, posthumous Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It (Chelsea Green, 2016). Selected for this issue by its editor Shaun Chamberlin. Endnotes omitted.
Asterisks mark words with their own separate entry in the dictionary. Any of these can be read in full and for free at the newly-launched LeanLogic.online
Expectations. The attitudes and assumptions which shape the way we make sense of events and plan our response. Unless our expectations are right, or at least expressed as a considered set of probabilities, we plan to fail. But, right or wrong, expectations are self-reinforcing, for we see what we expect to see. We may not realise how critical expectations are in guiding perception, but they are decisive. In the context of our perception of *art, the art historian E.H. Gombrich reminds us of . . .
by Shaun Chamberlin | Apr 1, 2020 | All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Lean Logic, Out and about, Philosophy, Surviving the Future, The Sequel, Transition Movement
December 2020 update: We have reached our cap of 100 participants for the second run of the course, starting Jan 4th 2021, and so have closed enrolments. You can sign up to be notified about our next course here. April 2020 update: Due to overwhelming interest,...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Mar 28, 2020 | All Posts, Favourite posts, Featured, Lean Logic, Surviving the Future, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas), The Sequel
It's been brought to my attention that after over fifteen years of Dark Optimism, some of the best stuff has got a little buried.
If you're new here, I keep this post updated, so let me give you the tour and see what grabs your interest!
by Shaun Chamberlin | Mar 12, 2020 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Lean Logic, Out and about, Peak Oil, Surviving the Future, The Sequel, Transition Movement
So, we have a sold-out London event on Monday, launching our film, book and online course. And all week I’ve been agonising — with the others involved — about whether to cancel it or not, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of writing (Thursday...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Feb 22, 2020 | All Posts, David Fleming, Out and about, Surviving the Future, The Sequel
The below image is taken from my latest newsletter. Tickets are now on sale (and going fast!) for the launch of our film The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?, with guests Caroline Lucas MP, Kate Raworth and Rob Hopkins joining me and the...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 22, 2019 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, David Fleming
When the bestselling theologian Reverend Michael Dowd invited me to open his ‘Post-Doom’ series of interviews on dealing with the widespread foreboding about climate chaos, societal collapse, and ecological ‘doom’, I didn’t imagine how...
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