Jonathan Hung
@jonathanhung.bsky.social
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ux designer, post-capitalist dreamer, curiosity engine, poker player. ND/adhd. ATX jonathanhung.design
ux designer, post-capitalist dreamer, curiosity engine, poker player. ND/adhd. ATX jonathanhung.design
![If the next few years are going to be dark, then our acts will continue to burn with a disproportionate light.
The work that needs doing in these times has always been about building new progressive labor coalitions, democratizing work, resisting hawkish imperialism of all kinds, and distributing economic power.
Don't accept that any of these [progressive and transformative] aspirations are somehow 'idealistic.' They are radically pragmatic and deserve equally pragmatic and brilliant strategies.
I have no issue with owning my position on the ‘left,’ and have never found this to be a particularly polarizing perspective because what I advocate for is a transformation of worldview. This take on ‘transformational politics’ for me has come with the understanding that the future, if we are to have one at all, will need to be ‘post-capitalist.’ I believe, as Graeber famously wrote, that ours is a world that is made and remade, all the time. The theoretical and philosophical work I draw from, and am inspired by, ultimately advocates for the creation of a ‘time beyond progress’ and, subsequently, the regeneration of our material lives. There is nothing aloof about this inquiry. ‘Planetary’ and ‘ecological’ thought, living in radical relation with the more than human world; these things are, more than ever, matters of deep existential and pragmatic concern for our shared futures. I like the philosopher Bruno Latour’s name for this: he calls it ‘terrestrial’ politics.
Imagining a habitable world beyond capital and a time beyond progress--this is the 'terrestrial' politics of the future, and it is all the realism and pragmatism we so profoundly need.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlavvtes3ywl3rohhoo7owhv/bafkreig7qe3scgtkho4wpxky7f2otipz24rdxryoyhut7psjgaub7ymqeu)
