Manda Scott will explore dreams, visions and life-changing questions that drew her to write Any Human Power, her first novel in the new Thrutopian genre. What does it take to be a good-enough ancestor? How can we construct a flourishing future from the ashes of modernity — and do this peacefully, in time, in a way that brings a critical mass of the world with us? We live in a complex world, and there is no one-hit answer. We need complex responses built on a new set of values. Working out what these new values are, and how they might replace the narratives of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that define the death cult of predatory capitalism is the most urgent work of this moment. Any Human Power is a ‘seismic, visionary’ novel, but it’s only one map amongst many. There will be others. Together, we will explore what these might be.

Unfortunately no audio recording is available for this session.