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This book uses an interdisciplinary inter-mediational approach to reflect on the relational complexity of unsettlement as a predominant sensibility of the present époque.The book tackles interrelated aspects of unsettlement including temporality, the disconcerting effects of the Anthropocene, the biomedical facets of unsettlement, and the post-pandemic futures. It uses a chimeric approach combining essayistic and speculative fiction writing methods, negotiating rational, affective and imaginative ways of inquiry, and showing rather than merely explaining. The book poses questions, but gives no ready-made answers, and invites us to think together on the unsettlement as a negatively global human condition that can be collectively made into a generative move of resurgence and refuturing.Contributing to critical reflections on the main features and sensibilities of the current époque, the book will be of interest to scholars and undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the general public, interested in critical global and future perspectives, in decolonial research, gender studies, and posthumanities.

Transitions are universal. They include the important and familiar milestones of starting kindergarten, graduating from high school or college, and becoming employed, parents, or retirees. These transitional moments, however, also include unexpected or unanticipated events like losing a job, joining a running club, or experiencing a global pandemic. In each of these moments, individuals, groups, and organizations experience the anxiety, self-doubt, worry, and uncertainty associated with these novel experiences. Our natural response to these moments is to avoid, side-step, or hurry through until this moment of transition is over. The problem with these strategies is that while we are trying to shut out the unpleasant feelings of those moments, we also miss all the possibilities and discovery. What if we invested time, training, and space to learn, experiment with and strengthen our ability to wrestle with and successfully navigate these moments of transition? Whether a significant transition like moving into a new school or just shifting from one project to the next, we need to build strategies and techniques to leverage and learn from the discomfort that individuals experience during these moments. This book offers names and faces for our feelings, thoughts, and reactions in our transitions. It is based on sound research and data collected by the author and other researchers but is also based on the author's experiences, mistakes, reflection, and learning from doing the work in different contexts. It includes a framework to learn to stay in these transitions, embrace dissonance, and leverage these moments of discovery. Whether you want to introduce this transitions framework and strategies in a classroom, boardroom, or your own life, this book is for you and your organization to start the intentional work to create spaces, and time to name, feel, explore, reflect on, and move through the myriad transitions occurring during our personal and professional journeys.

Este libro rinde homenaje a la obra El malestar en la cultura, imprescindible para cualquiera que pretenda ahondar en las causas de la infelicidad humana y que Freud explora al constatar las dificultades que entraña el intento de regirnos por el principio del placer.'El plan de la'Creación'no incluye que el hombre sea feliz'. Parafraseando al inventor del psicoanálisis, lo que en sentido estricto llamamos felicidad surge de la satisfacción; pero es preciso reconocer que la persistencia de un logro anhelado se convierte en un tibio bienestar; nuestra disposición no nos permite gozar de forma intensa sino del contraste. Nos es más fácil, sin embargo, experimentar la desgracia que nos amenaza por tres lados: desde el propio cuerpo, desde el mundo exterior y de las relaciones con otros seres humanos, siendo esta última fuente de sufrimiento el centro de la operación analítica, toda vez que, a pesar de ser considerada más o menos gratuita, concentra los motivos más dolorosos de nuestra existencia. Y ello en la medida en que no existe subjetividad sin el Otro: el síntoma es singular y, a la vez social. La condición humana, dependiente del lenguaje, nos vincula a los demás; somos seres hablantes, hablar es nuestra naturaleza, el germen de nuestra satisfacción y de nuestros padecimientos. Pero, si bien nos concierne a todos, el misterio rodea el alcance que toma en cada uno: es inconsciente. La modalidad y presentación del malestar que ocasiona esta realidad inexorable distingue el espíritu de cada época, vinculado, por lo tanto, al estado de los discursos; por ello, a pesar de la insistencia en comparar y asimilar esta segunda década del siglo XXI con los años 30 en que ese texto clave fue escrito, no se pueden obviar los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar entre tanto, y de sus efectos en la conmoción simbólica que estamos atravesando.