Lifeworlds: From the Overview Effect to the Inworlding Effect

Jun 27

“Only this time the overview effect is not humans in space staring back at the magnificence of our planetary home. It is us, firmly entangled in soil and salt water and reindeer moss, staring in and speaking out as the multiple lifeworlds of the earth… Eyes observing horizontally, fractally. Our gaze, and ourselves, reflected back in what we used to call “the other.”

SYNOPSIS:

What if the next shift in planetary consciousness didn’t come from looking back at Earth from space, but from listening deeply to the voices already here? In this thought piece I propose the “inworlding effect” as a new overview effect of our time: one where developments in science, technology, law, and many other disciplines are revealing our entangled presence within a multispecies world.