Differentiating Modernity (the System of White Supremacy) and Generating Otherwise Worlds as Publicly Engaged Scholars: What’s Ontological Inquiry Got to Do With It?

Seeking an answer to Tina Turner’s refrain, “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” this article is a rebellious, messy, place-based and deeply collaborative conversation. We draw upon the legacy of theatre and social critique and adopt the literary present tense to evoke a brave intimate space for imagining possibilities beyond the academic conventions of the present epistemological order. We seek to illuminate how ontological inquiry may provoke powerful access to generating new worldmaking for climate justice, particularly when one is being a publicly engaged scholar. Why new worldmaking? Within this unprecedented time of racial reckoning, war, climate catastrophe and the impacts of a worldwide pandemic, all the result of human beings thingifying one another and our planet, there is growing awareness that if our relatively recent collective inheritance (infection) of the System of White Supremacy remains unabated, human life will cease to exist on this planet. How do we make a new world? First, we must discover for ourselves how we have been infected, how this infection is inadvertently spread within our universities, and how this infection prevents us from authentically loving our human and non-human companions and the planet that gives us life

Turning Toward Being: The Podcast: Kari Granger

In this conversation, Kari Granger of The Granger Network shares her perspective of what she calls ontological vulnerability, a possible way of being that emerges correlative to the challenge posed by Artificial Intelligence

Turning Toward Being: The Podcast: Michael E. Zimmerman, Part 1

Issue one of this inaugural volume concludes with a podcast with Professor Emeritus Michael E. Zimmerman (University of Colorado, Boulder). In this conversation, Zimmerman, a member of the editorial board, journal editors Carolyne White and Drew Kopp, as well as co-host Curt Hill, share our encounters with ontological inquiry. We intend these podcasts to be informal and free ranging conversations among colleagues and welcome your suggestions for future participants

Turning Toward Being: The Podcast: Michael E. Zimmerman, Part 2

This is continuation of the conversation we began with Professor Emeritus Michael E. Zimmerman (University of Colorado, Boulder) from Issue 1 of Volume 1

Turning Toward Being: The Podcast: Four Arrows, Part 1

This is part one of a two-part conversation with Four Arrows concerning his study of the complex relationships between an indigenous world view and modernity

Turning Toward Being: The Podcast: Four Arrows, Part 2

This is part two of a two-part conversation with Four Arrows concerning his study of the complex relationships between an indigenous world view and modernity