#rethink - Towards a systemic grammar of becoming ?

Why change is not linear, but relational, systemic and subterranean. In an age of polycrises, what matters is not only what changes, but how change circulates.

An AI-generated image of an enzyme, a biological catalyst: a molecule, usually a protein, that speeds up a chemical reaction in a living organism without being consumed by the reaction.

Change is too often described as a linear passage from one state to another, while the transformations reshaping our world are increasingly systemic, relational and subterranean. In an age of polycrises, what matters is not only what changes, but how change circulates through loops, thresholds, dependencies, infrastructures and imaginaries. This article argues for a more precise grammar of systemic becoming, capable of distinguishing adaptation from mutation, resilience from lock-in, and genuine transformation from the mere displacement of problems.

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