Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds

Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our WorldsHarnessing the power of storytelling for political progress Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around affective attractors. These are much more powerful than the truth value of any given narrative. The time has come for the left to reclaim the

Drawing on insights from sociology

including the precolonial tiger as ancestor spirit and the mythological weretiger

Mining industry moves people

Bernar Venet brings a visual and musical dimension to the knowledge he portrays on paper

Instituting as this process that refuses to settle into one structure

an inherent part of this form of practice

is frequently labelled as non-native invasive in conservation management

The card deck combines generative writing prompts with classic fruit machine symbols to encourage experimentation

observation

never shies from darker and more complex themes bound up in challenges with mental health

edited by Edward Grazda

Menna Barreto and Buggilla devoted their time at Jan van Eyck to initiating projects that felt more sustained and ever more sustainable