On Change

<p><em>On Change: Twelve Meditations</em> is a collection of philosophical fragments taking a personal lens to reflect on large-scale societal transformation.</p><p>The book invites readers on an introspective journey through life in the 2020s as external shifts meet internal confusion in the lingering aftermath of the pandemic. Constructed like a Lieder cycle - or a concept album - it is loosely structured around three sequences exploring various modes of relating to the world anchored in different design and virtue ethical principles. Each section offers a series of vignettes that weave together intellectual commentary with personal memories of the late 20th century in Strasbourg and Paris and contemporary life in Australia.</p><p>This short book finds its place in a philosophical tradition that combines the Pre-Socratics Daoism Aristotle Montesquieu Kierkegaard Ignatius Chesterton and German Romanticism with more recent queer ecological and post-colonial works. The more we recognise that things have complex genealogies the more we can imagine different futures. <em>On Change</em> is a call to reflect on the way we conduct our lives in a fast-evolving world and how we might best integrate the wisdom of the past to shape our emerging present.</p>