Gregg asked about this during our Emerge Gathering debrief meeting but I didn’t have time to give a full response.  There are quite a number of organizations, cooperatives, websites, email lists, Mighty Networks, Discords that are adjacent or somehow sympathetic.  One common thread is the recognition of the meta-crisis, or some aspect of it (political, economic, public health, educational, environmental, socio-cultural, and meaning).  Layman Pascal envisions a Venn-diagram with 3 partially overlapping circles for the most important intellectual movements: Integral, Metamodern, and GameB.  Some people and organizations might fall within one or two of these, and some all three. 

Last summer, a few of us got together to try to figure out how we might leverage technology to understand what people and what organizations have what values, approaches, theories, and goals and what other people and organizations might be able to partner with them to reach those goals.  Who is doing what?  How do we categorize this?  Who is potentially connected to whom?  How good of a job is each organization doing toward their stated goals?

I figured we could have a website and app that would provide this information in the form of lists and tables and Venn-diagrams created on the fly.  Lene suggested a directory that people would have to pay a small fee periodically in order to keep their information searchable.  I agreed that would at least answer the question of how to begin to pay for such a system, I also figured it would be more robust and useable if it would automatically and pro-actively mine this data from a variety of sources.  Kåre Wangel and I took this concept to Jim Rutt back in August and he said it would possibly be interesting to consider within his “Big Change Coalition”.  Kåre and I were hoping for an opportunity to present this idea to Rutt’s group (which I think includes the heavy hitters Gregg mentioned).  We haven’t got a response from him yet.  We’re both too busy to work on it ourselves, but we wanted to give the idea for others to run with it and see what they come up with.

As a start, Marcus Gabler put together this website and has a directory of many of the organizations https://www.mille-plateaux.com/sensemaking-philosophy although it is not interactive nor queryable and has limited entries right now.  Layman also had a map he showed during his appearances on RW and The Stoa that offered a few examples of organizations and intellectual movements adjacent to Integral Theory https://youtu.be/k6uUAS0wCCo?t=1932

I’m not sold on this term “Rebel Alliance”.  It sounds a bit Star Warsy, but this greater movement is likely to have different names that appeal to different people. 

Thanks, Andrew.

I completely agree with you that we need this. The topic came up at some point and I recall folks mentioning that some people may have worked on this, but I did not follow up at the time and now the reference escapes me. If others know of this kind of thing, please share.

When I built the UTOK website back in the summer of last year, I put up this page on related perspectives, which could be a start, but clearly is missing many possible pieces:

https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/content/related-perspectives

Best,

G

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