The Great Transition

Poverty Re-creates the Future

The Great Transition/10 – It is on the peripheries that one learns how to generate and re-generate vocations by Luigino Bruni published in pdf Avvenire (70 KB) on 08/03/2015 God created man as the sea created the continents: by withdrawing. Friedrik Holderlin The big processes of...

The Freedom of the Prophets Liberates Us

The Great Transition/9 - Encounters that "light up" spiritual and civil vocations by Luigino Bruni published in pdf Avvenire (54 KB) on 01/03/2015 To hide from you I turned off my light, but you surprised me with the stars. Rabindranath Tagore Generative communities and movement...

Do not give in to success

The Great Transition/8 The pitfall of '"dusk at noon" and its antidote by Luigino Bruni published in  pdf Avvenire (59 KB) on 22/02/2015 Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them... they prophesied in the camp. And a...

The Courage to Think of the Orchard

The Great Transition/7 The autoimmune disease of organisations can be cured by Luigino Bruni published in  pdf Avvenire (62 KB) on 15/02/2015 “Know well, then, that the god orders this. And I suppose that until now no greater good has arisen for you in the city than my service to t...

The Spirit of Differences

The Great Transition/6 - The Human Future is Creativity, not Cynical Homogenisation by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 08/02/2015 “‘Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargai...

Vulnerable Trust is the Strongest

The Great Transition/5  Making new alternatives to the logic of the castes grow by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 01/02/2015 ‘Communitas is a set of people united not by a “property”, but by a duty or a debt. Not by a “more”, but a “less”, by a lack, a limit that is set up as a burden, or...

The Claws of Ingratitude

The Great Transition/4 - Workers not seen any more, managers reduced to technicians by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 25/01/2015 “We should get used to reflecting deeply on the fact that my own self is communion. If we can define communities like the regular meeting of a few individuals i...

The Organization of Consumption

The Great Transition/3 Young executives sacrificed, just like in the armies and pagan cults by Luigino Bruni published inAvvenire on 18/01/2015 One can behold in capitalism a religion, that is to say, capitalism essentially serves to satisfy the same worries, anguish and disquiet formerly answere...

The Roots of Development

The Great Transition/2 - Crucial innovation stems from among the youth and the poor by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 11/01/2015 Two prisoners, in two neighbouring cells, who communicate by knocking on the wall. The wall is what separates them but it is also what allows them to communicat...

The Genius of the Future is Mestizo

The Great Transition/1 - Four (and more) different economies; new alliances by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 4/01/2015 How are you going to save the world? How find a straight road to progress, you men of science, of industry, of cooperation, of trade unions and all the rest? How are you...