Knowledge archaeologist by day and neurodivergent anthropologist by night| Jorn Bettin
3 posts published by Jorn Bettin during May 2023| Autistic Collaboration
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2 posts published by Jorn Bettin during December 2020| Autistic Collaboration
1 post published by Jorn Bettin during April 2020| Autistic Collaboration
The fundamental mismatch between hierarchical anthropocentric ideologies and cultures that embrace conscious collaborative niche construction beyond the human can not be over-emphasised. The former…| Jorn Bettin
Many Autistic people have great difficulties to think of the world in hierarchical ways. From everything that we know about our evolutionary path as humans, this is simply a reflection of innate hu…| Autistic Collaboration
Life is a highly dynamic system. Reflecting deeply on the relational nature of life allows us to become reacquainted with human emotional limits. Powered-up relationships are inherently incompatibl…| Autistic Collaboration
In indigenous societies human scale groups are those who we regularly rely on for mutual aid and assistance. In small societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone. T…| Autistic Collaboration
Surviving on the edges of modern society is an Art. The Arts and regular immersion in genuinely safe Open Spaces help us imagine and co-create ecologies of care in which care and mutual aid are the…| Autistic Collaboration
In our modern world the notion of tribalism is associated with many negative connotations, and especially with tribal bias, which is assumed to be an undesirable trait. A closer analysis reveals th…| NeuroClastic
The Autistic, Authentic, Autonomous Collaboration community grows organically, at human scale, at a human pace, one trusted relationship at a time, in the form of self-organising small groups that …| Autistic Collaboration
Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people have been comparing notes on the diversity of human ways of being via the internet for over twenty years. Lessons from the social model of disability an…| Autistic Collaboration
Illustration from Aarambh India Building blocks of cultural organismsPhysical presence and activityRelational presence and activityInternal presence and creativityDialogueRoutinesOpen SpaceAutistic…| Autistic Collaboration
In our modern world the notion of tribalism is associated with many negative connotations, and especially with tribal bias, which is assumed to be an undesirable trait. A closer analysis reveals th…| Autistic Collaboration
Our individually unique nervous systems and sensitivities develop and evolve over the course of our lives. 85% of neurodivergent adults often or always feel overwhelmed and misunderstood, and over …| NeuroClastic
Our individually unique nervous systems and sensitivities develop and evolve over the course of our lives. 85% of neurodivergent adults often or always feel overwhelmed and misunderstood, and over …| Autistic Collaboration
Humans are not going to find solutions for the polycrisis, conquer new planets, the galaxy, and the universe, fully understand the human condition, or develop technologies that replace anthropocent…| Autistic Collaboration
The NeurodiVerse Days of Solidarity offer a rich opportunity for omni-directional learning across cultures and geographies. The diversity in the way we collectively think about the future shapes th…| Autistic Collaboration
Money and social power gradients are abstract cultural artefacts designed to defy compostability – social conventions that we can accept or reject, which are perpetuated by careless and learning di…| Autistic Collaboration
The normalisation of social power gradients and powered-up relationships is the terminal disease that plagues all empires. Since we live in the context of the convulsions of dying empires, it is im…| Autistic Collaboration
The diagnostic criteria for autism cover a broad and diverse umbrella of people, and they obscure the Autistic lived experience of toxic cultural norms that are ultimately detrimental for all peopl…| Autistic Collaboration
W.E.I.R.D. stands for Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. As long as society confuses homo economicus with homo sapiens we are more than “a bit off course”. The exp…| Autistic Collaboration
It is easy to point out the flawed assumptions and circular reasoning that underpin the justification for the institutions and social norms in W.E.I.R.D. societies, especially from an autistic pers…| Autistic Collaboration
If neurodiversity is the natural variation of cognition, motivations, and patterns of behaviour within the human species, then what role do Autistic traits in particular play within human cultures …| Autistic Collaboration
The 10,000 year project of human civilisation or empire building is coming to an end. Human life as we knew it – shaped by the anthropocentric myths of “meritocracy”, technological R…| Jorn Bettin
Autists learn and play differently, because our senses work differently, and because we make sense of the world in different ways. Our sensory profiles don’t allow us to push cognitive disson…| Autistic Collaboration
Social power is best understood as a highly addictive and socially corrosive drug. Meaningful education in the era of the sixth mass extinction event has to focus on the majority of the human popul…| Autistic Collaboration
Updated on 20 April 2024 Laws and social norms in industrialised societies have been shaped by the metaphor of society as a factory and the metaphor of people as machines more than m…| Jorn Bettin
As I have been pointing out for the last few years, the commodification of neurodiversity and the exploitation of autistic people is in full swing. Corporate “Neurodiversity @ Work” and…| Autistic Collaboration
The Overton window of industrialised society We live in a time of exponential changes in communication technology. Just a few decades ago humans only needed to learn one or two languages and perhap…| Jorn Bettin
The growing cracks in the thin veneer of our “civilised” economic and social operating model are impossible to ignore, to the extent that serious discussions of degrowth are increasingl…| Jorn Bettin
All living systems, from the smallest forms of life to the planetary ecosystem are best understood as complex systems of feedback loops. Metaphors we live byInterdependence Holotropism Metaphors we…| Autistic Collaboration