Jonah Wilberg is a philosopher and interdisciplinary thinker, and co-creator at Life Itself and the Second Renaissance initiative. His substack is TheWiderAngle.
Jonah shares some recent research on the intellectual history of the Metacrisis: the idea that planetary challenges like ecological crisis and AI risk need to be thought of in a unified way, with economic or cultural root causes.
He discusses different definitions of Metacrisis in recent discourse, the history of that specific term, and the broader history of related ideas. Within 19th and 20th century philosophy, the Marxist and Phenomenological traditions are highlighted as especially relevant.
