Issue 8 · Spring 2023

The Future of the Humanities

Form Fatigue

Thomas Riccio 

Our world is in fragile shape—actions and decisions today portend consequences of planetary magnitude. We find ourselves carried by swift and ever-shifting crossing currents churning and pulling us to an ever-widening and deepening unknown. We are intelligent, resourceful, responsive, and capable of creating a future imaginal world. The stakes are high, the terrain ever-shifting, unknowns and consequences unpredictable and ominous.

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This article appears in Athenaeum Review Issue 8 (Spring 2023), pp. 45-54. Download a PDF copy.