The World Is Not Enough

Tuesday • June 4  • 8:00 – 9:30 AM PT • Online • FREE

In 2024, democracy is on the ballot, a principal story told by anxious news outlets worldwide. Yet, this focus on democracy’s precarity obscures other urgent matters: the rise of AI and its challenge to a humanist account of intelligence, the rumoured demise of liberalism, environmental crises reinforcing colonial logics, and international law’s failures to rise to the moral occasion of the destruction of Gaza. Smaller moments reveal other worlding events and the idea of a pluriverse with diverse moralities and systems. Are this year’s events just about a threatened ideology of belonging, or do they hint at other stories and possibilities?

Join OBI’s Democracy & Belonging Forum on Tuesday, June 4th 2024 (8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PT / 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET / 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM CET) for our next mbari of The Edges in the Middle, where OBI Global Senior Fellow Bayo Akomolafe will meet with author, sociologist, and environmentalist Ashish Kothari to discuss the sociomaterial, political, spiritual, and civilizational events shaping our time.  

Register for the virtual event here!