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Questions Over Answers
Dwelling in wonderment rather than formal account or easy ideology.
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A pan-historical exploration of the six wild forces - Ecology, Culture, Technology, Economy, Wealth, and Governance - that drive and produce our hyper-globalizing civilization. It's wild.
The Book
Inside the Black Box
Wild Globalization explores the “quantum entanglement” of six primal forces-energies from which “civilization” no longer merely evolves but rather emerges to the shock and awe of the natural world. We may observe what goes in and what comes out of the box, but what happens inside surpasses our complete understanding. It’s wild.
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Ecology
Energy Orders, Ice, Fire…and Darkness…the “Universal” forces that shape Civilization’s lifeworld.
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Sex & Culture
Physical evolution to “meta-physical” emergence…humanity’s magnificent yet destructive presence.
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Technology
Tools and strategies that make humans “hyper-natural.”
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Economy
Resources, excess production, real and “virtual” reserves – the “value plays” that create and leverage human power.
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Governance
Small to large group power structures that order – or disorder – human action.
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Wealth
The “free human creative-destructive value response” in a wild – and wilding – world
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About the Work
Wild Inquiry not Settled Doctrine
A field guide for thinking when history’s wild forces outrun our practical and ethical response.
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Miracles & Horrors
Building perspective from both the triumphs and tragedies of the human story.
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Pan-Historical Lens
Drawing from paleoecology to governance across 300,000 years of civilization.
Wild GlobalizationCan we turn our incessantly creative-destructive and emerging hyper-tech nature back on itself to gain new comparative advantages? How can we, in the 21st century, regain practical advantage for our own - and the Earth’s - precarious endurance?
The Author
Gary Bedford The Wild Globalization Project Pan-historical analysis