NOVITA'[1602]

This essay was originally meant for publication in the Journal of Future Studies. Approved in draft form, it was later rejected by peer reviewers, undoubtedly because of my criticism of the thought of post-humanist author Karen Barad. I am now resubmitting it to Stultiferanavis hoping that my attempt to engage with futurism will be relevant to less ideologically oriented futurists. In it, I present a series of vignettes about my life, forming a spiral from a distant past to the present and then back to a more recent past, the moment of my ecological conversion during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the second part, I offer a conceptualization of the journey that makes it possible to see the spiral as the living context that emerged from the hypotheses ”Evolution = learning from your ancestors” and “Future = a safe space-time where to become brave”. “Holding and letting come” (E.T. Gendlin) is the phenomenological move that can make sense of all of it.