Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Staff Picks and Book Recommendations Books and Authors that make a difference must be shared. In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help are here to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are constantly in flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape what ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolute materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! Adrienne Maree Brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.