Toward an Ontological Reset: Introducing “Thinking Global Co-Becoming: An Open Invitation”

A brief introduction to the document “Thinking Global Co-Becoming: An Open Invitation,” explaining the context of its production, its basic tenants, and the spirit that animates it. The document is an “invitation” in the most enabling sense of the term: a gift offered to the world’s readers to join in the conversation regarding how we can gongsheng, that is build a truly shared and common global life. The document aims to reset our understanding of what it means to exist on this planet, in the hopes that the cycles of violence that now grip us can be contested at the level of philosophical principle. It is a beginning, not an end, an opening toward a possibly different future, one that rejects the hopelessness that defines the now.