Cosiety is my word for collectivity that runs all the way from the sub-individual to the global, with cognitive as well as social features, and with room for institutions. Think of the microbiome and the caste system in the same frame. I proposed it as a question and I'm still asking it.
How the word moved
I introduced it in July 2020, first in Caste Cosiety and then in Introducing Cosiety. The caste essays had convinced me that even the most stubbornly societal structures need a bigger setting than society. My image for the ideal cosiety was Shivji ki Baraat, Shiva's wedding procession, where gods, animals, demons and everything else walk together. Had I been starting those thirty months of presearch again, I'd have begun with cosiety.
In my words
"That, my friend, is cosiety."
from Introducing Cosiety, 27 Jul 2020
"What is Cosiety?"
from Introducing Cosiety, 27 Jul 2020
Related
- Related Geocracy - Geocracy is the setting and cosiety is the larger entity that lives in it.
- Related Stuffistan - Cosiety grew out of the same run of essays on caste.
- Related Presearch - Cosiety was where thirty months of question seeking, which I call presearch, led me.
Still open
I wrote that the essays still didn't tell us what cosiety is, and that remains true. There's a folder of drafts, but every finished essay ends on the question.