Introduction

I A great start to footnotes here, as I have searched all the live-long day for where I read a quote to this effect and can’t find who it’s from. If it’s you, I apologise unreservedly and say thank you because it’s so insightful I had to lead the book with it. Call me, we’ll chat on the podcast and find out what you’re doing currently.

II From Kester Brewin’s edition of YoHo Journals, Vol VI, Pirating The Pirates, p49, published 2022 by Unfold Media: https://www.patreon.com/unfoldmedia

III Discover the wondrous art supplies shop that’s been offering me student discount since 1988: https://www.artceterabournemouth.co.uk/

 

Chapter 1

1 From The Cosmic Connection Part One, section 4 A message to Earth, by Carl Sagan, produced by Jerome Agel, originally published 1973 by Doubleday & Company Inc. Updated edition available at Cambridge University Press.

2 From Art Matters by Neil Gaiman, the section Why Our Future Depends On Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming, first published 2018 by Headline Publishing Group: https://store.headline.co.uk/products/art-matters?variant=40261427953836

3 From Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke, Act IV, Chapter 12 Character And Characterisation, the section entitled The Psychological Basis of Characterisation, originally published 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/186437/into-the-woods-by-yorke-john/9780141978109

4 McAdams, D. P., & McLean, K. C. (2013). Narrative Identity. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(3), 233–238. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721413475622.

5 From the Psychology Today article: The Past Isn’t Objective: Your “Story” Is Your Responsibility – How Memory And “Meaning” Work by Dr Benjamin Hardy: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/quantum-leaps/202006/the-past-isnt-objective-your-story-is-your-responsibility. An excerpt from his book Personality Isn’t Permanent originally published 2020 by Penguin Random House.

6 Ways Of Seeing by John Berger, originally published 1972 by Penguin Books, now available on the Penguin Modern Classics imprint.

7 At time of writing this, you can watch John Berger’s BBC2 production Ways Of Seeing episode 1 on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/0pDE4VX_9Kk.

8 At time of writing this, you can listen to James Bridle’s New Ways Of Seeing, produced by Steve Urquhart and Reduced Listening for BBC Radio 4, on his website here: https://jamesbridle.com/new-ways-of-seeing.

9 From Ways Of Seeing by John Berger, chapter 7, originally published 1972 by Penguin Books, now available on the Penguin Modern Classics imprint.

10 Discover the full UN Sustainable Development Goals online at: https://sdgs.un.org/goals.

 

Chapter 2

11 Discover Practical Boat Owner at: https://www.pbo.co.uk.

12 Discover Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre at: https://www.bangarra.com.au/

13 Taken from the In Films 2020 production Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra written and directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair, min43: https://www.in-films.com/firestarter

14 Taken from the beginning of the introduction to Why Are We ‘Artists’?: 100 World Art Manifestos by Jessica Lack, originally published 2017 by Penguin Classics.

15 From the January 2021 Ukrainer.net article and film Fighting for Donbas with Art led by Bogdan Logvynenko: https://ukrainer.net/street-art-zakharov/.

16 From Russel Brand’s video Billionaire Bunkers: How Super Rich Are Prepping For OFF-GRID Living at 16mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khLlpu-qJuM

17 From How Not To Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O’Brien, ch? p? ? originally published 2021 by Penguin on the WH Allen imprint.

18 From How Not To Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O’Brien, originally published 2021 by Penguin on the WH Allen imprint.

19 From The Economist Feb 2022 article Yuval Noah Harari argues that what’s at stake in Ukraine is the direction of human history: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/02/09/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-whats-at-stake-in-ukraine-is-the-direction-of-human-history.

20 From How Not To Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind by James O’Brien, originally published 2021 by Penguin on the WH Allen imprint.

21 Ayleen Jovita Romero’s performance of El Derecho de Vivir en Paz by Victor Jara was partially caught on camera here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYFaWYNbfnI.

22 Quote taken from the Al Jazeera news article Chile’s Unpopular President Delivers Solitary Farewell: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/2/chile-unpopular-outgoing-president-delivers-solitary-farewell

23 From the Mar 2020 Complex article by Sevdaliza, Art Is Life. Life Is Art: https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2020/03/sevdaliza-essay-life-is-art#:~:text=The%20artist%20is%20often%20referred,of%20humans%20and%20the%20self.

24 From Olafur Elliasson’s 2016 Crystal Award essay Why Art Has The Power to Change The World: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-art-has-the-power-to-change-the-world_b_9054158

25 Discover Rael San Fratello’s Teeter Totter Wall at: https://www.rael-sanfratello.com/made/teetertotter-wall.

26 From Funny Weather: Art In An Emergency, by Olivia Laing, the essay You Are Welcome, second par, originally published Apr 2021 by Pan Macmillan.

27 Discover Sarah Wood’s Boat People at: http://www.sarahwoodworld.com/films_01new.html

28 Get a glimpse of Marc Hundley’s solo exhibition, at Lower East Side Gallery, New Music: https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/marc-hundley/exhibitions/new-music-2016-05-06/6884/

 

Chapter 3

29 The Experience Economy idea and book by Joe Pine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_Economy

30 Why Science Is A Bit Like Art: The 2020 Momo Science Caketalk – Timo Peach talks to artist Denise Poote and science educator Brian Kraemer Banks: https://youtu.be/NcbDq8t3ntw

31 Watch Sir Ken Robinson’s 2012 TED Talk Do Schools Kill Creativity?: https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity/c

32 From Olafur Elliasson’s 2016 Crystal Award essay Why Art Has The Power to Change The World: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-art-has-the-power-to-change-the-world_b_9054158

33 These quotes are from a Chapel Arts Studios blog post that has now been taken down but you can discover the work of Tony Spencer at: https://tonyspencerarts.co.uk/

34 Discover Alice Flynn’s work at: www.alice-flynn.com

 

Chapter 4

35 The Arena di Verona: https://www.arena.it/en/arena-di-verona

36 Franco Zeffirelli first staged Aida at the Verona Arena in 2002 according to the venue’s history: https://www.arena.it/it/arena-di-verona/artista/franco-zeffirelli Goodness knows if he knew about moon cycles but I got a sneaky feeling the Romans had worked it out very exactly. Fact check it for us both and tell me what you find in the local.

37 Nora Bateson spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CBBZqs-TE&t=288s

38 Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks was acquired by Art Institute Chicago from the artist himself at what must now seem a mind-blowingly knockdown investment cost: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628/nighthawks

39 From Tess Thackara’s Arsty article Understanding Edward Hopper’s Lonely Vision of America, Beyond “Nighthawks”: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-understanding-edward-hoppers-lonely-vision-america-nighthawks.

40 Discover Peter John Cooper’s work at: https://www.peterjohncooper.co.uk/

41 From Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke, from the very beginning of Chapter 6 Fractals, originally published 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd.

42 From Art Matters by Neil Gaiman, the section Why Our Future Depends On Libraries, Reading And Daydreaming, a couple of pages from the end, first published 2018 by Headline Publishing Group: https://store.headline.co.uk/products/art-matters?variant=40261427953836 That Douglas Adams evoked the sentiment of this quote first is hearsay; I simply think his presence is summoned briefly by any appearance of the number 42.

43 Sarena Ulibarri spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhuxW7i13UY&list=PLhFASf9y_qKwiFuEp9HVop7VBZ7ldGJrW&index=14

44 From Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke, from Chapter 12 Character And Characterisation in the section The Phsychological Basis of Characterisation, originally published 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd.

45 F Scott Fitzgerald’s essay The Crack Up is from a 1936 edition of Esquire, as explored by Quote Investigator: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/05/intelligence/

46 From Funny Weather: Art In An Emergency, by Olivia Laing, from her Frieze column, GreenFuse, originally published Apr 2021 by Pan Macmillan.

47 Taken from the In Films 2020 production Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra written and directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair, 46mins in: https://www.in-films.com/firestarter.

48 Referencing Alain de Botton’s article for Tate, The Pleasures of Sadness: Edward Hopper: https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-1-summer-2004/pleasures-sadness

 

Chapter 5

49 Norsemen or Vikingane was a 2016 Viafilm production written and directed by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsemen_(TV_series)

50 SonsOfVikings.com has a good blog on the role of storytelling, saga and poetry in Norse culture: https://sonsofvikings.com/blogs/history/viking-lore-a-quick-intro-to-norse-eddas-and-sagas

51 I’ve quoted from the 1981 BBC television series of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, but that was of course adapted from the first 1978 BBC radio series and 1979 initial novel, first published by Pan Books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

52 From the article The Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Introduction by Shmoop: https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy

53 Taken from the opening to Joe Pomeroy’s film about Rich Simmons and his project Art Is The Cure, which you can find on the AITC site: https://www.artisthecure.org/artisthecure

54 Jana Hildreth’s piece on Bored Panda is called Art Therapy Saved My Life, This Is My Result:
https://www.boredpanda.com/art-therapy-saved-my-life-this-is-the-result/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

55 Taken from the May 2021 Canvas article The Unhealthy Myth Of The Mad Artist: https://canvas.nma.art/2021/05/27/the-unhealthy-myth-of-the-mad-artist/

56 The original tweet link seems to have gone but you can still find Nitin and links to his passionate work on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/thenitinsawhney

57 You can find Tim Bergling’s family’s second statement about his death at DJMag: https://djmag.com/content/aviciis-family-release-second-statement-implies-suicide

 

Chapter 6

58 From Nathan Bonnisseau’s August 2014 article in Rio On Watch Why Are Favelas Cultural Incubators? https://rioonwatch.org/?p=17149

59 Nora Bateson spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CBBZqs-TE&t=288s

60 Jorge Barbosa was director of Observatório de Favelas at the time of the article that quotes him in 2013 and you can still find the project’s work today, including links to Solos Culturais at: https://observatoriodefavelas.org.br/

61 If you have an interest in placemaking and haven’t read Jane Jacobs’ The Death And Life Of Great American Cities then why are you still reading this? Put this down and go get it immediately: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities

62 From Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World, the chapter Forevever Limited, about ten pages in, first published by The Text Publishing Company 2019: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tysonyunkaporta

63 Watch the video to Anitta’s hit, Vai Malandra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDhptBT_-VI

64 Taken from Lucy MacMahon’s Rio On Watch January 2018 article Anitta’s Global Hit ‘Vai Malandra’ Music Video In Context: Favela Funk and Passinho https://rioonwatch.org/?p=41211

65 Discover the Rede Funk Community at the Casa Do Funk: https://casadofunk.wordpress.com/

66 Go on, feast your modernism-craving eyeballs on Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia and discover something of its history in this Something Curated article which I’ve not quoted in the book but worth a read: https://somethingcurated.com/2021/11/16/oscar-niemeyer-the-birth-of-brasilia/ Is it??

67 I am actually secondhand-quoting Norman Foster here from Robin Banerji’s 2012 BBC World Service article Niemeyer’s Brasilia: Does It Work As A City?: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20632277 – but you can find Foster’s effusive tribute to Niemeyer directly in this December 2012 Dezeen article by Amy Frearson: https://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/06/norman-foster-pays-tribute-to-oscar-niemeyer/#

68 I have a mate who lived in Brasilia for a few years. He said it wasn’t as unliveable as I make it sound here. Like he’d know.

69 Discover Marcus John Henry Brown at: https://www.marcusjohnhenrybrown.com/

70 Discover Flex from Momo’s point of view in this Promo article: https://www.momotempo.co.uk/2019/07/flex-momo-brings-some-blistering-power-synth-to-berlin-supporting-a-breakout-bit-of-futurism-theatre/

71 From The Corporate Artist by Marcus John Henry Brown. I think. I should ask him.

72 Ann Rosenberg, SVP for Sustainability Solutions at Wood, co-Founder of UN SDG Ambition, WEF advisor, co-founder of New Zero World campaign and author of Science Fiction: A Starship for Enterprise Innovation, spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits here: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-ann-rosenberg/

73 Discover the work of Nice & Serious at: https://niceandserious.com/

74 From the April 2022 Medium article by Teresa Inés Cruz and Alexandra Whittington Reconsidering Sustainability & Re-generativity (Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight)
https://medium.com/@teresainescruz/reconsidering-sustainability-re-generativity-terranascient-futures-studies-foresight-f3f36c95530a

75 Discover the work of Purpose Disruptors at: https://www.purposedisruptors.org/

76 Julian Bleaker spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits here: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-julian-bleecker/

77 Discover the Near Future Laboratory at: https://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/

78 Oh, you know Andy Warhol’s Soup: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbells-soup-cans-1962/#:~:text=Warhol%20said%20of%20Campbell’s%20soup,to%20the%20photo%2Dsilkscreen%20process.

79 Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is arguably the art game-changer; class discuss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

 

Chapter 7

80 A quote you can currently find by Duncan Burns, VP Design i.am+ and Co-Founder Modern Milk Co, on the homepage of the Near Future Laboratory: https://www.julianbleecker.com/near-future-laboratory

81 From Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World, the chapter Romancing The Stone Age, about ten pages in, first published by The Text Publishing Company 2019: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tysonyunkaporta

82 Jeremy Johnson explored this in his Nura Learning course Fragments Of An Integral Future that I attended last year, more of which you can find on their homepage: https://www.nuralearning.com/

83 From Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World, the same section in the chapter Romancing The Stone Age, first published by The Text Publishing Company 2019: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tysonyunkaporta

84 From the Art Story’s timeline article Primitivism, under the section Beginnings of Primitivism and the crosshead “The Noble Savage” Emerges: https://www.theartstory.org/movement/primitivism/

85 Art as “counter environments” is a phrase showing up in Marshall McLuhan’s exploration of cultural ecologies, most notably in his book now treated like a study bible Understanding Media first published in the UK 1964 by Routledge. But I’d point you at his nephew Andrew’s Medium article Understanding Understanding Media which looks at an introduction to the book’s second edition in which Marshall contextualises the phrase nicely: https://medium.com/@andrewmcluhan/understanding-understanding-media-8cdd40d46908

86 81 Referencing a section from Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World, the chapter Forever Limited about ten pages in, first published by The Text Publishing Company 2019: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tysonyunkaporta

87 Ivy Scurr spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-ivy-scurr/

88 Jay Spingett may have said this to me offline, but he also spoke to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/unsee-the-future-the-hopeychattybits-meeting-jay-springett/

89 Permaculture One was originally published in 1978 and is available at many usual book places but also on David Holmgren’s own website: https://store.holmgren.com.au/product/permaculture-one-ebook/

90 Eller Everett was speaking to me on Episode 2 of an Unsee The Future Think Blinks mini series: What Do Sustainability Champions Most Want, To Make Better Emotional Impact?
https://momozo.co/unsee-the-future-think-blinks/

91 The Permaculture Association’s introduction to the concept you can find here: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/knowledge-base/basics

92 Taken from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge And The Teachings of Plants published 2020 by Penguin, in which I understand she quotes a story told by her friend Holly Youngbear Tibbetts in which a plant scientist employs an indigenous guide who acknowledges the botanist’s praise that they have “learned all the names of the plants”.

93 You can find Gustav Klimpt’s painting Death And Life here: https://www.gustav-klimt.com/Death-And-Life.jsp

94 You can find Frieda Kahlo’s painting Thinking About Death here: https://www.fridakahlo.org/thinking-about-death.jsp

95 You can find Edward Collier’s painting Still Life With A Volume Of Wither’s Of Emblemes here:
https://www.tate.org.uk/about-us/projects/tudor-stuart-technical-research/entries/still-life-volume-withers-emblemes-1696#:~:text=Essay-,Still%20Life%20with%20a%20Volume%20of,Emblemes’%201696%20by%20Edward%20Collier&text=This%20painting%20is%20in%20oil,%2C%20plain%20weave%20canvas%20(fig.

96 You can find Jasmine Dale’s book Permaculture Design Companion, published by Permanent Publications 2019 here: https://www.permanentpublications.co.uk/port/permaculture-design-companion-a-practical-workbook-for-integrating-people-and-places-by-jasmine-dale/

 

Chapter 8

97 You can find various references to the sneaky-weird reproductive life of F Liguloides but I took my information on it from this especially splendidly written article from Parasite Eats World: https://parasiteeatworld.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/flamingolepis-liguloides-eaten-pink/

98 This quote I think came via mate and McLuhan student Rina Atienza but it appears to be from Marshall McLuhan’s essay The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment, collected into the book Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication, edited by Michel Moos, published by Routledge in 1997: https://www.routledge.com/Media-Research-Technology-Art-and-Communication/Moos-McLuhan/p/book/9789057010811

99 From Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media, Chapter 1, The Medium Is The Message, about twelve pages in, first published in the UK 1964 by Routledge:

100 Joe Scott suggests this in Answers With Joe episode… jiggered if I can find it. But he definitely said it, possibly early 2022, and you should definitely dive into Joe’s genial insights on the world: https://www.youtube.com/@joescott/featured

101 The Matrix: Resurrections is Lana Wachowski’s 2021 follow up to the original three Matrix movies, co-written by David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10838180/

102 Timothy Morton suggests this in his book All Art Is Ecological, the chaper And You May Find Yourself… a couple of pages into the section Dark Ecology, first published by Penguin Books 2018: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443663/all-art-is-ecological-by-morton-timothy/9780141997001

103 All Art Is Ecological by Timothy Morton, the same chapter as above, And You May Find Yourself… a couple of pars further on in the section Dark Ecology, first published by Penguin Books 2018: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443663/all-art-is-ecological-by-morton-timothy/9780141997001

104 The quote from Buckminster Fuller that explains his idea of “trim tabs” can be found on the BFI page here: https://www.bfi.org/2015/03/16/activating-the-trim-tabs/

105 81 From Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World, from just a couple of pars into the chapter Immovable Meets Irresistible, first published by The Text Publishing Company 2019: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/authors/tysonyunkaporta

106 Blackadder II was a BBC production written by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis that first aired in January 1986. When kids say they don’t get it, I don’t understand them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder_II

107 From the Metamoderna article What Is Metamodernism?: https://metamoderna.org/metamodernism/

108 Samuel Ludford’s Medium article Against Metamodernism, from which this is taken, is a deep dive critique worth the time if you want to get into this: https://samuelludford.medium.com/against-metamodernism-51be3cbbe751

109 From Luke Turner’s article Metamodernism: A Brief Introduction which you can find on his own website: https://luketurner.com/metamodernism-a-brief-introduction

110 You can find out more about Martin Perez Comisso at his website: https://www.mapc.tech/home

111 From Jonathan Rowson’s guest editorial for The Alternative, We’re Caught Between Hope & Despair…: https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2021/7/24/guest-editorial-jonathan-rowson-metamodern#:~:text=To%20be%20metamodern%20is%20to,it%20is%20about%20mixed%20feelings.

112 This is taken from Vinay Gupta’s Tweet thread found at the time of using it here: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1363665437913993220

113 From Greg Dember’s Medium article from April 2018 After Postmodernism: Eleven Metamodern Methods in the Arts: https://medium.com/what-is-metamodern/after-postmodernism-eleven-metamodern-methods-in-the-arts-767f7b646cae

114 Thomas Flight’s YouTube piece Why Everything Everywhere All At Once Hits So Hard is a beautiful deep dive into the cultural place of the film: https://youtu.be/VvclV0_o0JE

115 From the opening of the After The Future December 2008 post Metaxis: https://afterthefuture.typepad.com/afterthefuture/2008/12/metaxis.html

116 Diotima of Mantinea may or may not have been a real person, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diotima_of_Mantinea

117 The full original article Notes On Metamodernism appears to be available at Taylor & Francis Online where I found it: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v2i0.5677

118 Hazel may well have said this to me directly, so outstanding is she at providing editorial quotes when I ask her for them, but she was also talking to me on Unsee The Future: The Hopeychattybits here: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-hazel-evans/

119 Though I found the quote elsewhere, it is taken from Reinhold Niebuhr’s book Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Man_and_Immoral_Society

120 You can watch some of Hazel Evans’ response to this experience on her YouTube video: 40 pages of pilgrimage which has links in the notes to her website: https://youtu.be/BDZZYTvkEpM

 

Chapter 9

121 It’s a quote from the foreword to The Essential Calvin & Hobbes first published 1988 by Universal Press Syndicate.

 

Conclusion

122 From Olivia Laing’s book Funny Weather, first published 2020 by Picador, part of the section Four Women, p146 paperback edition.

 

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