No one could have imagined the behemoth of neoliberal capitalism – the god and engine of modern life – brought to its knees literally within a mere blink in Time. Life as we knew as ‘normal’ will never be that. Too much has been exposed, rendered uncertain as the illusory bulwarks of modernity crumble beneath the glaring spotlight of a
“I hope the fragrance of the non-violence of India would permeate the whole world. I often wonder if that hope will materialize.” Mohandas Gandhi For all of us, there are times when events of the modern world can lead us to a state of deep despair. This is happening more often these days, with alarming reports of pollution, climate change,
Part One: Positive Disintegration – are we willing? “Something ancient asks us to give account of our centrality. To heed is to die. And there in lies our deepest hope for potentially wiser worlds. The space for optimism in this picture comes from the opportunities within the creative foreclosure of the old World.” – Bayo Akomolafe Between 24/7
Part Two: Breaking the Cycle – conscious uncivilising “Its very difficult to ask people to give up the assumptions by which they have always lived, and yet that is the demand the world has got to make now of everybody.” – James Baldwin History doesn’t have much currency in our 21stcentury thinking. It’s seen as belonging to the past,
This documentary series is a deeply insightful study of how the consumerist driven, capitalist, liberal democracies of the modern world were formed in the early 20th century.
Sashikala Ananth is a leading exponent in India of Vaastu, the traditional architecture of the Indic civilisation.
We met Alnoor Ladha at his home in Tierra Valiente, the community he helped create in 2016 in Costa Rica. We talked about The Rules, Community, Capitalism, his Sufism, global history, ancestral knowledge and other topics brewing on the edge of a post-capitalist world. The Rules – podcast “What is preventing us from having really strong local communities and
In India, my experience of tradition (and just about everything else) was like going down the rabbit hole.
No one could have imagined the behemoth of neoliberal capitalism – the god and engine of modern life – brought to its knees literally within a mere blink in Time. Life as we knew as ‘normal’ will never be that. Too much has been exposed, rendered uncertain as the illusory bulwarks of modernity crumble beneath the glaring spotlight of a
“I hope the fragrance of the non-violence of India would permeate the whole world. I often wonder if that hope will materialize.” Mohandas Gandhi For all of us, there are times when events of the modern world can lead us to a state of deep despair. This is happening more often these days, with alarming reports of pollution, climate change,
Part One: Positive Disintegration – are we willing? “Something ancient asks us to give account of our centrality. To heed is to die. And there in lies our deepest hope for potentially wiser worlds. The space for optimism in this picture comes from the opportunities within the creative foreclosure of the old World.” – Bayo Akomolafe Between 24/7
Part Two: Breaking the Cycle – conscious uncivilising “Its very difficult to ask people to give up the assumptions by which they have always lived, and yet that is the demand the world has got to make now of everybody.” – James Baldwin History doesn’t have much currency in our 21stcentury thinking. It’s seen as belonging to the past,
This documentary series is a deeply insightful study of how the consumerist driven, capitalist, liberal democracies of the modern world were formed in the early 20th century.
Sashikala Ananth is a leading exponent in India of Vaastu, the traditional architecture of the Indic civilisation.
We met Alnoor Ladha at his home in Tierra Valiente, the community he helped create in 2016 in Costa Rica. We talked about The Rules, Community, Capitalism, his Sufism, global history, ancestral knowledge and other topics brewing on the edge of a post-capitalist world. The Rules – podcast “What is preventing us from having really strong local communities and
In India, my experience of tradition (and just about everything else) was like going down the rabbit hole.
