Octavia Butler famously wrote: "All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God Is Change."
Change happens, despite any attempts to halt it. But change is hard to generate, nigh impossible to muster when we need it. For those of us committed to the struggle for liberation, change feels cruelly elusive. How do we nurture positive change? How do we respond to negative change?
Today we explore how our late modern consumer capitalist society sells change to us: from planned obsolescence to hyper-fluidity, how might we put down deep roots?