The Future is a Foreign Country
I’m pleased to note that the conversation about ephemeralization and catabolic collapse launched a few weeks back by futurist Kevin Carson, and continued in several blogs since then, has taken a promising new turn.
Society
Zombie Cannibalism: Why We Should Be Concerned if There’s a Business Case for Eating People
But still, it’s unnerving to think: there’s a business case for eating people.
Creating buildings and environments that support life
Why is it that so much of what has been built for the last 100 years seem to go against what we have consciously and unconsciously learned throughout our human history (not to mention our almost 2 million years of evolution!)
Review: The Democracy Project
Understanding social movements, what causes them and makes them succeed, are the elusive questions that David Graeber’s latest book, The Democracy Project. A History. A Crisis. A Movement, confronts in response to the contemporary Occupy movement.
What’s the Connection Between Foster Care and the Ecological Stuff?
The fact that we can’t make professional institutions that duplicate the functions of family suggest that there is something about families that cannot be marketed, sold, professionalized or made into cookie cutter product…
Empty Lots, Grand Visions
…the lesson at hand requires us to ask an important question: How do we go about balancing the vertical density that makes any city feel urban with the scenic, spirit-reviving respites that make it feel, well, human?
Art for Everyone’s Sake
Is art a commons? Or does collective creativity violate the individualistic nature of artists themselves? That’s a topic I’ve explored both in my art and in conversations with artists around the U.S.
Green bankruptcy
There has been a lot of bad news for European Green parties lately and it must be said that those woes are not really undeserved.
Can Fracking Showdown on Native Land Help Break Canada’s Cycle of Colonialism?
Over the past several centuries we have been violently dispossessed of most of our land to make room for settlement and resource development.
To boldly train where no trainer has trained before: Taking Transition far and wide
May East is the Transition trainer who reaches the parts that other trainers don’t reach, geographically speaking at least. She has pioneered Transition with rubber-tapping communities
Comedian Russell Brand takes on the crisis of civilisation. But what now?
During his Wednesday night interview with Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight, comedian and actor Russell Brand said what no politician or pundit would ever dare say…
Catabolic Ephemeralization? Carson versus Greer
Last week, Kevin Carson, a political historian and theorist of the Mutualist tradition, took issue with the concept of catabolic collapse, a term coined a few years ago by the author John Michael Greer. Greer responded; the exchange that followed provided an illuminating look at two views of the future that actually share many qualities but which differ in important respects.
