I believe in a politics of complexity. One which you cannot homogenize or leave undifferentiated. A politics reminding us that what works is often at the smaller scale, where the gatherers of information are its users. A politics that starts with cases to be analyzed in their own right. A politics that resists getting lost when scaled up but compels asking at each scale, What am I missing right in front me?
A politics where no matter how tightly-coupled other things are, people’s stories are not as connected. A politics that insists if you believe everything is connected to everything else, then nothing is reducible to anything else, and if you believe both, then the starting point is not interdependence or irreducibility, but the kaleidoscopic granularity in between. If everything is connected, not everything adds up.
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 