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Entanglements: Weaving Our Futures brings a fresh re-imagining of the challenges facing us in our disruptive age that provides rich and nourishing food for thought. At the heart of the book is the recognition that we live in a new Precarious-Interdependent Age (P-I Age). This calls for a radical shift in how we relate to ourselves, each other, and to our environment. Simon Western presents a score and more of short essays that each respond to a dislocating social or political event: Covid-19, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the rise of 'woke' culture and populism, the climate crisis, the meaning of monarchy, and much, much more. Western invites us to 'look awry' at the world, enabling us to observe the unconscious currents and symbolic meanings that shape collective experience and personal identity.
These evocative reflections with a psychoanalytic sensibility are grounded in lived experience. Drawing on his unique journey from factory floor to nursing, family therapy, academia, and organisational leadership, plus a stint as a stay-at-home father, Western bridges personal narrative with social critique. Themes of loss, care, power, desire, belonging, re-enchantment, and digital disruption are explored, always with the intention to provoke reflection and uncover possibilities for ethical and soulful ways of being.
Thus, Western does not deliver glib answers, pithy soundbites, or certainties. Rather, he accompanies those seeking to work through complex, messy, and entangled times with thoughtfulness and courage.
Contents
Table of Contents
About the author
Introduction
What authored the author?
Part I: Dislocating events
Introduction to Part I
Lockdown: In praise of the thermos flask
The Covid event: Revealing new truths
Taking a stance on the Ukrainian war
What canst thou say? Israel and Palestine
The meaning of the monarchy
Brexit: The politics of enjoying displeasure
The meaning of Trump
Part II: Rising tides
Introduction to Part II
The meaning of Greta
The rise of woke
The politics of dissonance
The wounded-self and celebrated-self
What is your true desire?
'Helpless helping'
Free yourself from the happiness imperative
Enjoy your limitations!
Staying with the trouble: Psychosocial insights into working with diversity issues
Space invaders
The network society is a disruptive society
The making and unmaking of borders
Presence and absence: Melancholia and confusion in the digital age
Networks of desire and NIPI
The monastery: Moments of grace
Seasonal awakening
Everyday spirituality
Part III: Weaving our futures
Introduction to Part III
Living well in the Precarious-Interdependent Age
Island contemplations
Afterword, July 2025
Notes
Index
