“We have to relearn to walk the world as a living being” – quote from Adriana Paredes Pindan in Desgins for the Pluriverse In this book, Arturo Escobar discusses that burning question I’ve had as a graduate student, “Can modernist traditions and institutions be reoriented to enable the emergence of varied, just, sustainable, communal, and autonomous ways of living?” – bluntly put by myself, “Is what we are doing as academics actually helping create different and better worlds

Less is More by Jason Hickel explores the origins of capitalism, and its pervasive hold on global economic systems. By examining phenomena, such as growthism, cultural hegemony, and the capitalocene, Hickel seeks to bring awareness to the causes of ecological breakdown and shift economies back into balance through the practice of degrowth. Hickel argues that the root of these problems is compounding growth and the need for constant expansion at the expense of everything else