{"id":449,"date":"2018-02-14T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=449"},"modified":"2018-02-14T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:16:33","slug":"instructions-for-the-age-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/instructions-for-the-age-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructions for the Age of Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In paraphrasing Rebecca Solnit&#8217;s important book,\u00a0<em>Paradise Built in Hell\u00a0<\/em>(2009), Monica Byrne writes, &#8220;we have it all backwards: the society we <em>currently live in<\/em>\u00a0is the catastrophe, and going through a natural disaster gives us the opportunity to wake up from the spell. Natural disasters will breed opportunities not yet imagined. The fictive impulse of possible futures is why\u00a0<em>artists<\/em> will become the natural leaders. Byrne and Solnit are making important observations and well worth your attention.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fy4uYQ1BB8\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/monicacatherine.com\/2018\/02\/08\/instructions-for-the-age-of-emergency\/\">Instructions for the Age of&nbsp;Emergency.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Instructions for the Age of&nbsp;Emergency.&#8221; &#8212; monica byrne\" src=\"https:\/\/monicacatherine.com\/2018\/02\/08\/instructions-for-the-age-of-emergency\/embed\/#?secret=8LAELvdnfE#?secret=fy4uYQ1BB8\" data-secret=\"fy4uYQ1BB8\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In paraphrasing Rebecca Solnit&#8217;s important book,\u00a0Paradise Built in Hell\u00a0(2009), Monica Byrne writes, &#8220;we have it all backwards: the society we currently live in\u00a0is the catastrophe, and going through a natural disaster gives us the opportunity to wake up from the spell. Natural disasters will breed opportunities not yet imagined. The fictive impulse of possible futures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}