Jorn Bettin | Knowledge archaeologist by day and neurodivergent anthropologist by night
Knowledge archaeologist by day and neurodivergent anthropologist by night| Jorn Bettin
Knowledge archaeologist by day and neurodivergent anthropologist by night| Jorn Bettin
Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash People talk about a global ecological crisis, a climate crisis, an economic crisis, an institutional crisis, a pandemic, and a mental health crisis. These crises are…| Jorn Bettin
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
Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…| Jorn Bettin
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
Timeless patterns of human limitations Jorn Bettin, 2021, published by S23M.Lulu (paperback)Amazon (Kindle) Through the lenses of evolutionary biology and cultural evolution, small groups of 20 to …| Jorn Bettin
This post is a rather long story. It attempts to connect topics from a range of domains, and the insights from experts in these domains. In this story my role is mainly the one of an observer. Over…| Jorn Bettin
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
Big is Bad, Small is Beautiful, Less is More The preoccupation with growth and technology accelerated following WWII, fuelling the illusion of infinite growth on a finite planet. The rise and…| Jorn Bettin
Nothing beats collaborative niche construction at human scale, co-creating egalitarian & neurodiverse ecologies of care that are understandable by future generations of humans & software to…| Jorn Bettin
Have you ever wondered why “storytelling” is such a trendy topic? If this question bothers you and makes you uncomfortable, your perspective on human affairs and your cognitive lens is …| Jorn Bettin
Replacing monologues and monocultures with dialogues and biodiversity at all levels of scale Cultural inertiaAttempting to apply the scientific method in complex domains and transdisciplinary conte…| Jorn Bettin
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
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The many faces of busyness as usual From a European or American perspective the stereotype of the Japanese salaryman [1] is easily recognised as a product of a so…| Jorn Bettin
Evolutionary design allows organisations and people to participate in the evolution of a living system and to integrate their knowledge into a living system that includes humans, non-humans, and hu…| Jorn Bettin
Like bees and ants, humans are eusocial animals. Through the lenses of evolutionary biology and cultural evolution, local communities – and especially small groups of 20 to 100 people – are the pri…| 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
