Transition from the Metaverse of Capital to the Pluriverse of Ecology
Arturo Escobar, a critical researcher of development paradigms, proposes a Pluriverse of multiple universes and worlds instead of a universe centered on humanity.

The book by Arturo Escobar, a leading figure in the critical research on global development discourse, has been translated and published. He is a world-renowned Colombian anthropologist, a pioneering figure in the degrowth movement who has continuously raised questions about Western growth/development discourse. Over the past decade, there have been narratives and discourses on cultural and ecological transitions produced in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Concepts and movements such as degrowth, commons, symbiosis, and various transition initiatives have emerged in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, movements for Buen Vivir, the rights of nature, the logic of commonality, and struggles towards civilizational transitions have taken place. Escobar reflects on how these movements have been carried out in Latin American countries and how they are rearticulated as a pluriverse of commonality and autonomy.

The term "pluriverse", meaning multiple universes and worlds, originated from the worldview and autonomy movements of the Zapatistas in Mexico. For Escobar, the pluriverse signifies affirming the existence of 'other' worlds rather than ‘just one world’ and simultaneously indicates an ontological turn and directionality of praxis This reasoning is encapsulated in the phrase, "other worlds are possible, other possibilities are possible."