Conscious evolution, social development and environmental justice

Abstract

Abstract:Moving from Barnesmoore's (2016) theorization of humans as beings with the potential for conscious (epistemological) evolution, this article argues that a revolution in the ideas by which (‗world view' in which) we conceive of potential practice must necessarily precede a revolution of academic and social practice (that theory necessarily precedes practice). Revolution must be rooted in revolutionary ideas and cannot be facilitated by practices that rise from (are rationalized within) the hegemonic essence (ideas, axioms and logics) of the regime against which revolution is being waged.

The Evolving State of Gentrification

“…They will continue to evolve. We can and must participate, consciously and collaboratively, in the epistemological revolutions of our own evolutionary trajectory and how we think about ourselves (Barnesmoore ). We need not live in the deceptively friendly violence and naturalised inequalities of today’s eugenically gentrifying world.…”

Editorial: The right to assert the order of things in the city

“…different). Much of the above is not new, as the history of Colonial Modernity can be told as the story of attempts to manufacture the unitary order of things asserted by the archons of society through rationalistic, hierarchical domination of that which differs from the archon's asserted order (Barnesmoore 2017), but the role of Artificial Intelligence as the Archon surely is (even if the purported 'objectivity' and 'anonymity' of the AI Archon from the elite class renders it akin to other purportedly objective and autonomous masks for elite power like the US News Media). Not only should we be cautious that 'smart cities could become urban panopticons that produce docile urban subjects and foster uneven development (Vanolo 2014;Datta 2015) .…”