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chaosmapId: chaosmap-concept-relational-emergence
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title: Relational Emergence
publicationStatus: preview
guideAnchor: emergent-affinity
definitionSource: ../substack/a-game-board-for-life.md
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  - relational-world
  - emergence
type: concept
image: /images/illustrations/img-e90c8bd930bc-light.png
description: "Here we find new, incomplete social patterns: Bleeding-edge
  causes, spiritual practices, revolutionary movements, art forms, memes, and
  other expressions of social progress."
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# Relational Emergence

Here we find new, incomplete social patterns: Bleeding-edge causes, spiritual practices, revolutionary movements, art forms, memes, and other expressions of social progress.

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It’s a dramatic, artful mess of experimental ways of relating beyond what's permitted by the tradition or mainstream pop culture of Normland. As an emergent space, the patterns here are a broad-brushed, mixed bag of social impulses, most of which will never come to pass; but a few just might change everything for the better.

<related-reading title="Further reading">

Components: [@link(open=reference) Relational World](/concepts/relational-world/index.md) + [@link(open=reference) Emergence](/concepts/emergence/index.md)

- [Welcome to Cultureland](/essays/welcome-to-cultureland)
- [A Game Board for Life — Cultureland](/series/a-game-board-for-life#iii-cultureland)

- [In the Guide](../../index.md#emergent-affinity)

</related-reading>