Life is not a trivial side issue that can be touched upon in passing while discussing other things.
This foundational book of the Binding Chaos series reaches across a wide expanse of disciplines and knowledge to gather everything we know about life. From the principles which govern life, to why the topic is marginalized, to the shocking implications of our behavior, this scholarly examination is as full of twists and cliffhangers as any thriller. Abstracting Divinity is essential reading for anyone who is alive.
Welcome to the world of Binding Chaos, a groundbreaking series that introduces an enlightening and thought-provoking new framework to decode social behaviour and institutions.
Heather Marsh is a passionate champion of human rights and the driving force behind many of the most influential movements of the past decades. Her Binding Chaos theory reveals the principles that fuel her tireless efforts for change.
Heather Marsh is a world-renowned philosopher and human rights activist whose work helped shape and accelerate international events like the 2011 15-M movement in Spain and the subsequent global Occupy Movement. Her views on power and organization, as well as her deep knowledge of global human rights issues, provided the backbone for the transition of the Anonymous collective into a global activist movement. She played a key role in the early stages of Wikileaks by directing the focus of the organization's supporters onto human rights issues (and she left the organization in early 2012). She is the only person to have played a pivotal role in the formation of the three most influential movements of the last decade, Anonymous, Occupy and Wikileaks. She created or assisted a large number of other local and global movements worldwide, from the formulation of ideas for political movements to the distribution of aid and information for human rights movements. She has delivered keynotes at many global conferences and events and is the only person to have ever had a talk censored by the Oxford Union.
In 2013, Marsh released the internationally acclaimed book, Binding Chaos, which deconstructs our current relationship with governance and the trade economy and offers a new pathway towards self-governance. In Binding Chaos, she explores both idea based and action based mass collaboration. Her hands-on as well as theory-based experience make her the world's foremost expert in horizontal governance theory.
In 2020, she began publishing the rest of the Binding Chaos series with The Creation of Me, Them and Us. The 12 books in the later series continue the explorations of the original title but at a far more in-depth and comprehensive level. Abstracting Divinity, the much anticipated third installment of the Binding Chaos series, has just been released.
Because so many have read Yarvin, Heather Marsh books are a 1000% must-read for all of us. So excited to read Heather Marsh again. I found her books when American was reaching a boiling point (in my time) and they were eye opening (Binding Chaos and Creation of Me, Them and Us.) Also just realized Marsh wrote Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale, which feels so fitting. She brings solutions & hope pivotal to our lifetime.