The series starts by warning against our own naive realism. We need to take a step back from our view of reality as being made up of objects moved around by forces, and from our belief that this is the only way we can have access to reality.

In consecutive conversations, Cosmolab presents different views on the complexity of our world. Reality is made up of relations, of which we ourselves and our knowledge of it are part and parcel. To understand our uncertain times of polycrisis and polyphony, we can and should negotiate reality itself.

We close by focusing on classical domains of geopolitical analysis: money, energy, materials, technology and security. They are not only intimately related but also of human creation. They cannot be well understood under naive realism and reductionist scientism. 

Cosmolab starts a practice of epistemic diplomacy: to combine how we know, think, sense and act. And to engage with different worldviews to become aware of our own.