War Child

April 2024, I was attempting to write a piece about the ‘Resilience of Other’, part of a larger piece concerned with Resistance in the Fourth Turning: Art as a Political Tool. The fourth turning is a societal model popolarised by Strauss-Howe generational theory, history moves cyclically through predictable phases: footnote: High, Awakening, Unraveling, and Crisis. Presently, we find ourselves deep within a Fourth Turning, characterized by social upheaval, institutional collapse, and existential reckoning

I was attempting to put the ‘war’ in Gaza in a contextual piece about the utilisatoin of AI, social media algorhythms, however, each time I had a fact, a solid argument, an insight to reality, more Palestinians would be displaced, a cease fire would be announced, and this was to be a paper, likely not fit for publishing for another several rounds of peer review, so anything I wrote about it, would be out of date, and the consequences of, likely changed.