Noēma #6
Noema is published by the the Berggruen Institute, a think tank is Los Angeles. They publish longform essays, interviews, reportage, videos and art on the overlapping themes of technology, philosophy, governance, economics, geopolitics and culture. In doing so, their approach is to cross disciplines, social silos and cultural boundaries to seek a deeper understanding of the most pressing challenges facing the world today.
In this issue: Paradigm Shifts
When a concept that organizes our reality is replaced by an entirely different and incommensurate worldview, it is called a “paradigm shift.”
The theme of this edition of Noema was conceived in early 2024. At that time, we had in mind the epochal shift from the paradigm of globalization, in which markets, trade and technology cross borders, to “the Planetary,” where we recognize that the whole Earth system embeds and entangles human civilization in its habitat.
This deeper awareness has been enabled by the emergence of a technological exoskeleton of satellites, sensors and cloud computation that expands the heretofore limited scope of human understanding of the world, repositioning our place in the natural order. Neither above nor apart from nature, we have now come to realize we are part and parcel of one interdependent organism comprised of multiple intelligences striving for sustainable equilibrium.
Los Angeles, USA; 245 x 190mm; 206 pages; September 2025