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Chilean novelist Benjamín Labatut notices the horrifying need for change in the world. Yet at a global level, there's a growing impulse to retreat into the past, to a supposed era of stability. But is nostalgia really the way out of chaos? Clip from the Nexus Conference 2024, 'The Quest for Vision'.
In an insightful and vivid text he wrote for Nexus, Benjamín Labatut reflects on the role of logic and chaos, reason and imagination, individual and collective in a world on fire. Read his essay in Cultura Animi VIII, The Quest for Vision in a Confused World, together with two other essays of Paul Lynch and László Földényi: https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/publication/the-quest-for-vision-in-a-confused-world
Chilean novelist Benjamín Labatut notices the horrifying need for change in the world. Yet at a global level, there's a growing impulse to retreat into the past, to a supposed era of stability. But is nostalgia really the way out of chaos? Clip from the Nexus Conference 2024, 'The Quest for Vision'.
In an insightful and vivid text he wrote for Nexus, Benjamín Labatut reflects on the role of logic and chaos, reason and imagination, individual and collective in a world on fire. Read his essay in Cultura Animi VIII, The Quest for Vision in a Confused World, together with two other essays of Paul Lynch and László Földényi: https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/publication/the-quest-for-vision-in-a-confused-world
