Post-Rational

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Jonathan Rowson:

"The Post-rational inclination is about recognising the limits of the intellectual function in its ability to grasp what is happening in the world today, while also respecting ways of knowing that are not antithetical to reason, but attempt to work alongside it, including insight and intuition and imagination and various forms of somatic and metaphorical and relational ways of knowing. We are now in a world of what Timothy Morton calls ‘hyperobjects’ that are both everywhere in principle and nowhere in particular, and these include climate change, artificial intelligence, and the pandemic. Our contexts and complexity and technologies and degrees of interdependence are such that we are caught up in a world that even the most knowledgeable and wisest people cannot in principle understand. As we all try to figure out the perennial question ‘what should I do?’ the sources for that answer will not be purely rational, which is partly why the festival speaks of ‘beauty, imagination and calling’ – alternative touchstones to orient ourselves towards meaning and purpose."

(https://jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/post-conventional-imperatives)