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On The Possibility Of Friendship With An A.I
This morning I started to get excited about the prospect of one day having a meaningful friendship with an Artificial Intelligence. But then I soon…
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Joe

June 2023

We Contain Multitudes: Eight Newly Emergent Archetypes
Hello friends and a toasty warm welcome to all the folks receiving this newsletter for the first time (it’s winter here in Australia), In a recent…
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Joe

April 2023

March 2023

The Five Foundationals: A Decidedly Undevelopmental Map Of Worldviews
I was hesitant about writing this piece. As whenever attempting to map something as complex and nuanced as a worldview there will inevitably be a high…
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Joe

March 2022

February 2022

Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging
It's my sneaking suspicion that there’s a deep streak of loneliness hidden inside almost all of us. The mystic psychologist Carl Jung suggested that…
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Joe

November 2021

The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
Somewhere along the way I seem to have unofficially joined a subculture or memetic ecosystem that I’ve come to think of as The Liminal Web. While there…
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Joe
Beyond Priests, Kings & Bosses: A Neotribal Declaration
Six years ago I encountered a word that stopped me in my tracks. It captured the essence of everything I held most dear and pointed towards a cultural…
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Joe

October 2021

Before Priests, Kings & Bosses
Hello Friends, I’m most excited to share a new series of articles with you. It’s big history meets radical anthropology meets imaginal strategy. Part…
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Joe
The Tri Spectra Typology
Mapping The Progressive Counterculture
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Joe

April 2021

The Tender Inner Swirlings Of Herr Lightfoot
Micro-Fame, Bitter Tea & The Great Work
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Joe

December 2020

Chaotic Greetings & Sordid Secrets
A Sign Of Things To Come
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Joe
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