Cassandra on Fire!

The global economy is currently caught in a tension between environmental and health emergencies, the pressures generated by digital technologies, latent and open conflicts, and the gradual depletion of natural resources. These issues are examined through the graphic novel Cassandra On Fire!, a visual, creative, and scholarly work developed with the support of digital technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (excluding the script). The creative process has stimulated reflection on the central role of human creativity and imagination in the appropriation of these emerging tools. The work takes as its point of departure the major catastrophes of the twenty-first century in order to open up perspectives on forms of innovation—technological, but above all organizational and social—that are required for the construction of a sustainable future. It thereby extends, in both a playful and rigorous manner, existing analyses of the interdependencies among the major challenges facing humanity, within a framework of vigilance, innovation, and systemic transformation.