Global Knowledge Futures: Articulating the Emergence of a New Meta-level Field 1

摘要: In this paper I articulate a new meta-level field of studies that call global knowledge futures—a through which other emerging transdisciplinary fields can be integrated to cohere at higher level. contrast with the current dominant paradigm economy its fragmentation, commodification and instrumentalism based on neoliberal capitalism. take big-picture, macrohistorical lens thinking patterns are within evolution consciousness discourse. explore three discourses: postformal studies, integral planetary 3 —using fourth discourse, futures provide macro-temporal framing. By extending meta-fields postformal, into prospective future dimension, locate areas development where these leading-edge discourses brought closer dialogue each other. meeting point four boundary-spanning identify futures, grounded in human capacities, such as creativity, imagination, collaboration.