Entanglements: Weaving Our Futures brings a fresh re-imagining of the challenges facing us in our disruptive age that provides rich and nourishing food for thought. At the heart of the book is the recognition that we live in a new Precarious-Interdependent Age (P-I Age). This calls for a radical shift in how we relate to ourselves, each other, and to our environment. Simon Western presents a score and more of short essays that each respond to a dislocating social or political event: Covid-19, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the rise of 'woke' culture and populism, the climate crisis, the meaning of monarchy, and much, much more. Western invites us to 'look awry' at the world, enabling us to observe the unconscious currents and symbolic meanings that shape collective experience and personal identity.
These evocative reflections with a psychoanalytic sensibility are grounded in lived experience. Drawing on his unique journey from factory floor to nursing, family therapy, academia, and organisational leadership, plus a stint as a stay-at-home father, Western bridges personal narrative with social critique. Themes of loss, care, power, desire, belonging, re-enchantment, and digital disruption are explored, always with the intention to provoke reflection and uncover possibilities for ethical and soulful ways of being.
Thus, Western does not deliver glib answers, pithy soundbites, or certainties. Rather, he accompanies those seeking to work through complex, messy, and entangled times with thoughtfulness and courage.
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