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The Slow Grind #2
The Slow Grind: Practising Hope and Imagination
The Slow Grind: Practicing Hope and Imagination , follows the thread of dreaming, worldmapping and future-thinking that The Slow Grind: Finding Our Way Back to Creative Balance, the inaugural book published in 2020, spearheaded.
This time, we engage in the project of relearning the importance of hope and imagination. Presenting visions that assert these as principles that require the re-enchanting of our minds and the lighting of a kinetic force within our molecular bodies. This book focuses on radical ecology, the power of art as a memory keeper, and the poetics of creativity as a necessary antidote to the fear and anxiety we are all feeling in the face of multiple crises.
Key to this is a belief that holding hope for our ecology starts with holding hope for ourselves and one another. Filled with the insight of more than 20 thinkers, activists and futurists spanning the globe , the perspectives held within the architecture of this book are concerned with encouraging the development of a planetary consciousness that is informed by hopeful criticality and urgency.
Edited by Georgina Johnson
This time, we engage in the project of relearning the importance of hope and imagination. Presenting visions that assert these as principles that require the re-enchanting of our minds and the lighting of a kinetic force within our molecular bodies. This book focuses on radical ecology, the power of art as a memory keeper, and the poetics of creativity as a necessary antidote to the fear and anxiety we are all feeling in the face of multiple crises.
Key to this is a belief that holding hope for our ecology starts with holding hope for ourselves and one another. Filled with the insight of more than 20 thinkers, activists and futurists spanning the globe , the perspectives held within the architecture of this book are concerned with encouraging the development of a planetary consciousness that is informed by hopeful criticality and urgency.
Edited by Georgina Johnson
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Published January 1, 2023
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February 10, 2026
An “intersectional environmentalist book”.
My favourite quote from this was from Bel Jacobs, founder of The Empathy Project - “The only cure for grief is to grieve. And then to act”. It was written in the context of environmental activism but it’s unlocked something in my thoughts that I’m very grateful for. As with the first The Slow Grind collection, this book is very beautifully printed, but I found some of the essays a bit of a slog, but it’s a topic worth slogging over
My favourite quote from this was from Bel Jacobs, founder of The Empathy Project - “The only cure for grief is to grieve. And then to act”. It was written in the context of environmental activism but it’s unlocked something in my thoughts that I’m very grateful for. As with the first The Slow Grind collection, this book is very beautifully printed, but I found some of the essays a bit of a slog, but it’s a topic worth slogging over
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