Alternatives often not pursued as capitalism is so intrinsically linked with how people process thoughts and build solutions and consider the functioning of society that they cannot imagine a world without it
Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher

Men

bell hooks on plurality. (2000) ‘beyond specific historical contexts or shifting relations of power and inequalities’

Mentions

“the vision of a world where myriad and diverse cosmologies, epistemologies, and ontologies overlap, intersect, interweave, and entwine to form a glorious tapestry of entanglement — a reflection of our indelible interconnectedness and inter-relatedness”->
“official archival institutions can be seen as preoccupied with assimilating individual voices into unified, formalized, coherent, logical collective narratives, para-archives might be seen as concerned with acknowledging the heterogeneity and plurality of micro-perspectives, forms of alterity that might be incompatible with the mainstream, strategic, and regulatory.” ⤴️

Demystifying the ‘Pluriverse’ as the Hegemony Unravels
Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge edited by Bernd Reiter

“The ‘sensible’ becomes shorthand for the neoliberal ordering of reality which conceals the material trouble and ‘unexists’ alternative ways to inhabit a world.” ⤴️
“Neoliberalization is hegemonic, but it is not invincible. It is merely hegemonic now. Counter-projects are possible; indeed they are inevitable. — MARK PURCELL, Resisting Neoliberalization (2009, 144)” ⤴️
‘Were we falling into the trap of neoliberal thinking that sees the future as something necessarily new?’ - “Decolonising design in peacebuilding contexts”