Neuro-Futurism and Re-Imagining Leadership An A-Z Towards Collective Liberation

This book is a rip-roaring manifesto that re-claims ways to think about and do ‘leadership’. Colliding mobilities, neuro-queering, the arts and culture, critical leadership studies, social justice, creative pedagogy, futurity and Daoist cosmology for the first time, the book proposes ‘neuro-futurism’ as a beyond-colonial, heuristic change-making tool-kit for individuals and institutions. Celebrating the Dangerous, Demeaning and Dirty labour of Deviant/Defiant culture-workers often side-lined in (leadership) scholarship across 26 break-neck chapters and 39 images, this book challenges white-supremacist-cis-het-neuro-normative-capitalist-patriarchal forms of power and knowledge. Punchy, punching up and pulling no punches, it is a call to arms, feet, sole-soul, to co-create tables/houses/worlds that profit (neuro-)divergent people, planet, poetry and play. The deadline is 2050, so we’re running out of time. Are you ready for an extra-ordinary adventure?

1) T: Turn the Table of Dis-Contents.- 2) P: Pivot. Play Havoc.- 3) Y: Yell Back, Huff & Puff, Blow the House Down!- 4) V: Visualise 2050.- 5) F: Futurise. Up-Rise. Up-End.- 6) G: Gate-Crash. Change Culture Through Ill-Discipline.- 7) D: Dys-Play Your Difference.- 8) U: Un-Learn Tentacularly.- 9) H: Make Head-Ways Hyper-Tactically.- 10) E: Energise. Gently Anarchise.- 11) R: Run New (Dis-)Courses.- 12) W: Wake & Shake Off Smoke-Screens.- 13) Z: Zing & Sting Leadership.- 14) M: Monster-Map. Move Mountains, Moons & Mars.- 15) C: Clock-Block. Drive Your Own Destiny.- 16) L: Lunge Forward in Your Battle-Cat!- 17) Q: Have Quickies with Other Species.- 18) B: Boom Boom! Be the Bees Knees.- 19) S: Stim. Self-Soothe.- 20) I: Island-Hop. Insure Against Insularity.- 21) J: Jeer-Leadership for Justice!- 22) X: X-Ray Yourselves.- 23) N: Neuro-Futurise & Collectivise.- 24) A: Agitate as Artful, Agile & A-Typical Cheer-Leaders.- 25) O: Octo-Pussify. Oxygenate.- 26) K: Kick-Start 10,000 Oppositional Aesthetic Acts.

Kai Syng Tan (she/they) is an artist-academic-agitator and Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership at UK’s University of Southampton. She writes in her personal, hyperactive and tentacular capacity.