Glossary
Aesthetics: The term “aesthetics” comes from the Greek aistesis, “sensual sensing”; activating all our senses (including the one for sensing beauty).
Anomie: Destruction and loss of social norms and values.
Archemedian point: The leverage point that, if focused on, could enable us to shift the whole system.
Atomie: Fragmentation, destruction, and loss of social structure; a term coined by the peace researcher Johan Galtung.
Autopoietic: Autopoiesis literally means “auto (self)-creation” (from the Greek auto, “self-” and poiesis, “creation”). The term was originally introduced by the Chilean biologists Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana in 1973. The notion of autopoiesis is often associated with that of self-organization; that is, ...
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