"The back loop is the time of the ‘Long Now,’ when each of us must become aware that he or she [or they] is a participant." (C. S. Holling, 2004, p. 5)
"[T]o inhabit the back loop can mean to belong to it, to have one’s own place within it, to be familiar, comfortable, & involved with it, rather than fighting against or living in fear of it. A habitual, everyday act of free creation & building: a peace within shifting terrain."
"Faced with the unfeasibility of the modern ‘technosphere’ and attendant infrastructures that prop up a highly variegated and unequal modern life, humans today need to ask how else might we feed ourselves, obtain clean drinking water, protect ourselves from the elements?"
"Where will we live and how? What other arrangements make sense? In short, being in the back loop puts the parameters of modern liberal life in question, up for grabs and on the table for rethinking and recreation."
"Life and future are open in many ways, but we find ourselves in an unsafe operating space. This is because, as ecologist Lance Gunderson puts it, ‘we can’t analyze our way out; the only way is to probe uncertainty’." (@stephwakefield_ 2017)
"Fundamentally experimental in nature because operating without safe transcendent ground, inhabiting the back loop is a ‘wild experiment’ that occurs in the world in which the past is still present. Engaging across space and time, back loop practice generates new encounters..."
"In short inhabiting the back loop will be a wild but also ‘speculative’ experiment, recreating and belonging intimately to the world.” (Wakefield, 2017, p.13)
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