We can’t navigate the future with a map drawn for a world that no longer exists. We’re told this is an age of disruption — climate crisis, technological upheaval, political unraveling — but the usual responses miss the depth of the moment: this isn’t “crisis management,” it isn’t “sustainability” (as if the goal were sustaining a broken system), and it isn’t merely “adapting to change.” Planetary Mutations is a sense-making journey through the post-Holocene shift — a course that doesn’t pile up more facts about what’s broken, but offers a fundamentally new framework for seeing the world we’re actually entering.


The journey moves through nine conceptual vignettes that reorient us for epic times — from cultivating deep time understanding in a post-Holocene world, to reframing our life-support systems as planetary commons, to moving from dominance to interbeing within the web of life. Together they traverse the dialog of civilizations, the digital commons, translocal solidarities, new political contracts, the loom of culture, and infrastructures of care. This course is for people who share a core values constellation: purpose (contributing to something larger than yourself), deep time (thinking in generations, not quarters), interconnection (knowing your health is inseparable from planetary integrity), and epistemic humility (suspecting no single worldview holds all the answers).

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José Ramos is a researcher, writer and advocate for commons-based social change. He focuses on such areas as future political economy, planetary stewardship, innovations in democracy and governance, the conjunction of foresight and action research, and transformative social innovation.