In an era defined by global catastrophic risk, polycrisis describes a collection of escalating crises and their complex interactions. Metacrisis points to the common, foundational conditions that generate and sustain these crises.This site offers an accessible introduction to metacrisis: what it is, how it relates to polycrisis, and why it matters. The emphasis is on clarity and rigor rather than drama: presenting the key ideas in a calm, factual way.
Prefixing the World
Why the polycrisis is a permacrisis, which is actually a metacrisis, which is not really a crisis at all.
Polycrisis - Cascade Institute
The polycrisis program examines how today’s multiple crises are linked and how the polycrisis could create possibilities for positive outcomes.
Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis
Dear friends, The Institute of Applied Metatheory (IAM) is pleased to announce the release of a new white paper that charts the landscape of leading-edge responses to the global metacrisis. In “Mapping an Ecology of Integrative Approaches to Addressing the Metacrisis”, IAM scholars Brandon Norgaard, Nicholas Hedlund, PhD, and Claudia Meglin provide a sweeping (albeit
Polytunity - The Ideas Letter
“Polycrisis” has become a ubiquitous descriptor for the multisector, intersecting problems afflicting the world—but the term masks the systemic nature of these crises and overwhelmingly reflects Eurocentric voices, priorities, and…
Metaventory — the meta-science community
A comprehensive community of the people building meta-science and the tools they make — psychology and economics first, growing science-wide.
Metacrisis and AI governance
Metacrisis and AI governance Jonah Wilberg, September 2025
Meta Research News | Meta Research
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
John Vervaeke: “The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and the Search for Coherence” - The Great Simplification
The crises that our world is facing seem to be constantly growing, leading to enormous and devastating systemic effects across the globe.
Truth in Inconvenience
What do ZIRP, the AI panic, and the meaning crisis have in common?
Metaverses
The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia
The Internet's Meaning Crisis
Parasocial media is a response to excessive irrelevance
Resilient Data Futures — Discourse Graph
A living, content-addressed, contributable form of the SciOS Resilient Data Futures whitepaper.
interesting to see them citing the meta-crisis and failure to address it as a prime reason for moving on - "our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences" raising meta-crisis awareness among AI researchers is a great way to reduce x-risk 👍 >
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another one for the scrapbook @gracekind.net
"the crucial step in crisis engineering is to re-establish a common view which corresponds to reality – to restore sense-making. Once that step has been taken, actually solving the problem becomes a tractable task, and without it nothing is going to work" -- @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
a failure of sense making
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