Figures & data
Figure 1 A world of only one Center vs. a world of many Centers.
Figure 2 The dichotomy reproduction vs. resistance and the third force (desire). The first two arrows (reproduction and resistance) are aligned with Modernity: one says “yes” and the other says “no.” Desire creates a third force, a new alternative. The third arrow can go to multiple directions.
Figure 3 In a needs-centered approach, need refers to the distance between the present state and the normative preformed desirable state.
Figure 4 The compass of desire and the multiplicity of possibilities.
Figure 5 The Promised Land of Modernity is a mirage. As humanity aligns its actions with this model, the Anthropocene and devastating crises are brought into reality. In a problem-solving and needs-based frame of mind, the problem is framed as the difference between the normative desired and the actual state, and not as our alignment with an unsustainable normative conception of what-is-desirable. Our imagination is funneled down to the creation of techno-fixes in attempts to conform reality to the idealized model.
