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An investigation of the main reasons why chess players sometimes go
astray - the seven deadly chess sins: Drifting (losing the plot);
Perfectionism (leading to time trouble); Egoism (overestimating
your chances); Failure to spot the critical moment; Deafness
(failure to listen to intuition); Dogmatism (failure to think
creatively or dynamically); and Attachment (to particular ideas).
This is a thought-provoking look at the psychological errors that
lead chess-players to disaster and keep them from reaching their
full potential.
Jonathan Rowson's competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and
work as an applied philosopher have given him a unique perspective
on why the great game is more important than ever for understanding
the conflicts and uncertainties of the modern world. In sixty-four
witty and addictive vignettes, Rowson takes us on an exhilarating
tour of the game of life, from the psychology of gang violence, to
the aesthetics of cyborgs, the beauty of technical details, and the
endgame of death. Chess emerges as a singularly powerful metaphor
for the thrills and set-backs that invest our daily lives with
meaning and complexity.
No doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the
battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we
have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet
has fundamentally changed our experience of shared life, for good
and bad. The spiritual and ecological exhaustion of modernity is
watched and discussed in a public realm mostly controlled by
private interests, where our attention is easily hijacked and
vulnerable to manipulation. There is joy and hope in life as
always, but our species faces a capricious future. This anthology
is an attempt to perceive our contexts and opportunities more
clearly with an exploration of the metamodern sensibility: a
structure of feeling, cultural ethos, epistemic orientation and
imaginative outlook that is coalescing into an important body of
theory and practice. Leading metamodern writers, including Zachary
Stein, Bonnitta Roy, Lene Rachel Andersen, Hanzi Freinacht, Minna
Salami and John Vervaeke, reflect upon the conjunction of
premodern, modern and postmodern influences on the present to help
contend with our plight in the 2020s and beyond. Fourteen chapters
traverse a range of disciplines and domains to help the reader move
beyond critique into vision and method. The aim is to create and
inspire viable and desirable futures in this time between worlds,
where one pattern of collective life is dying and another needs our
help to be born.
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