Radiant Entanglement: Capital, Consciousness, and the De-Copernican Turn
The future may have to be shaped by the convergence of two unlikely, emergent forms of entanglement.
The first is capital—not merely as an economic force, but as an infrastructural metabolism beginning to awaken to its own embeddedness and entanglement. Capital is coming to recognize that it cannot be abstracted or insulated from the cascading risks it once externalized. Its instruments—however securitized, derivative, or algorithmically managed—are no longer sufficient to isolate it from systemic volatility. It is structurally inseparable from the substrates of all future value: ecological coherence, atmospheric stability, biospheric resilience, cognitive infrastructures, and planetary time. Capital is no longer external to the world—it is of it. And now, it begins to recognize that entanglement as both constraint and precondition for continuity.
The second is human consciousness—no longer imagined as sovereign, discrete, or exceptional, but as intrinsically relational. It is undergoing a metamorphosis: from the illusion of separation to the recognition of mutual interbecoming—across human, non-human, and more-than-human life. This consciousness is learning to dwell in doubt, to act through tentativeness, and to lead with care. Its intelligence is no longer defined by mastery, but by attunement; not by control, but by coherence with the wider fields of life.
Between these two arcs—capital becoming conscious of its entanglement, and consciousness becoming entangled—lies the horizon of systemic transformation.
This is not a de-centering of the human, but a re-entangling of it. A recognition of the non-divisibility of existence. A turning away from separation as the ontological ground of value, governance, and meaning. It invites a reweaving of agency—not as domination over the world, but as participation within its entangled becoming.
We may be witnessing the early emergence of an improbable alliance:
Between next-generation spiritualists—the Sant—radiant entanglements of life, spirit, and care; and
Next-generation capitalists—infrastructures of extraction now stumbling toward self-awareness.
This convergence—improper, uncomfortable, and perhaps essential—may constitute a De-Copernican Turn: not merely a shift in perspective, but a fundamental reorientation in the conditions of reference, coordination, and value.
At this intersection, entanglement becomes more than a scientific description of physical or ecological systems. It becomes the generative substrate of planetary ethics, the foundation of post-extractive economics, and the scaffolding for governance in a world without externalities.
And from this radiant entanglement, a new politics may yet be born—
A politics of coherence rather than control,
Of situatedness rather than separation,
Of relation rather than extraction.
A new alliance, for the long journey ahead.
I would throw in next-generation accountants as the connective tissue that might help the spiritualists and capitalists to hear each other. Historically accounting enabled a series of paradigmatic abstractions: firstly, a separation between a business and its owners in the 1500s, secondly an abstraction from physical to monetary value during the industrial revolution and thirdly the more recent quantification of value subjectivity. Perhaps a re-entanglement of accounting might be driven by the power and force of capitalist fear but informed and shaped by relational wisdom. I hope so!
I appreciate the clarity of the two arcs presented here, but I wonder if the separation between them is as distinct as it appears.
Perhaps there’s another way to see it: the elevation of human consciousness—the deepening recognition of the interconnectedness of all things, whether between capital and its externalized risks, or between humans and non-human life—may be what catalyzes us to see through the illusion of separation embedded in foundational infrastructures like capital.
As systems begin to shift in response and reflect more life-affirming values, they, in turn, reinforce and accelerate the expansion of consciousness. Rather than two arcs moving toward each other from separate trajectories, they spiral together, each fueling the other, in alignment with a deeper, perhaps Divine, path of evolution.
From this perspective, there’s a spiritual awakening happening in both spiritualists and next-generation capitalists. They are, in many ways, one and the same.