Global Pause - Rethink the Future
278 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -We are consumers of life not its co-creators, so we are just givens. We are given credit for our wants and thats it. We consume our time as an economic good to no end. To see beyond the consumer is to see potential for change that would not just add value to the buyers journey called life, but unmarket it.
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#173: Entrepreneurialism post consumer
May 22, 2022 23:09 - 24 minutes - 44.9 MBWe discuss what an entrepreneur has to risk to make their business sustainable post the return of the consumer, to see change beyond the supplementary good it is sold as.
#172: To embody gratitude
May 20, 2022 00:03 - 25 minutes - 47.3 MBWe discuss the significance of our giving thanks in our everydayness, when human relations are reduced to want. We explore how a gratitude can become embodied through the praxis we advocate to eventually become a reverence.
#171: Civilisational enterprise
May 17, 2022 22:49 - 17 minutes - 32.7 MBWe explore the difference between a social enterprise and a civilisational enterprise business can be involved in when they see past the consumer they are sold on in order to market the good that can only substantiate the way of life they never questioned in the first place.
#170: Impossible demand
May 13, 2022 02:04 - 26 minutes - 50.1 MBWe explore how an impossible demand can be utilised in a form of activism to besiege business who leverage want for unsustainable fast fashion. When people are credited with nothing more than want to increase consumption is paradoxically the way to sustainability. We frame the issue beyond the moralism, so look at creative action.
#169: Existential propaganda
May 08, 2022 22:26 - 20 minutes - 39.2 MBTime given as a value creates the cognitive domain of rivalling truth claims that leverages what we immanentise to not see this foundational claim for what it is - a lie. We discuss
#168: Zero growth & the new economy
May 06, 2022 00:03 - 17 minutes - 33.3 MBHow can we transition the world to be post consumer? We explore this through the question of where growth comes from in a zero growth world.
#167: People before profit
May 01, 2022 02:10 - 13 minutes - 25.8 MBWe explore how this is achievable through the way people are brought forth from the frame life is managed through.
#166: Marketing as funerary rites
April 26, 2022 23:44 - 27 minutes - 51.6 MBAre we put in a sarcophagus to consume ourselves? Is marketing and branding funerary rites to ensure we remain in the land of the dead? We explore
#165: A question of freedom
April 21, 2022 04:35 - 12 minutes - 22.4 MBWe discuss freedom in reference to the form of life we share being market oriented. Is our understanding of it compromised by the relationally we substantiate? We discuss.
#164: Our grip on reality
April 17, 2022 00:29 - 17 minutes - 33.3 MBIf time is attributed a value, given as an economic good, and we equivocate it, we destroy time. If we cannot recognise time as a value is a lie, is our grip on reality compromised? We discuss.
#163: No place
April 09, 2022 23:30 - 13 minutes - 25.8 MBWe explore the no place for the market for our time, and the gap, or absencing we effectuate and how they are related to immanentize an atemporality - or realm of death
#162: How a product return can be used
April 04, 2022 23:56 - 14 minutes - 26.5 MBWe look at an example of how the product return of consumer can be facilitated through the product return of a garment of fast fashion businesses. This form of activism potentialises a conversation that is completely absent, when sustainability is framed through "production" rather than the way of life that legitimises consumption as a substitutable activity . We discuss.
#161: The self we esteem
March 31, 2022 23:03 - 18 minutes - 34.6 MBDoes self esteem try to make up for a lack of existential integrity in our lives? We explore this question through the marginal self that is a given being market oriented entails.
#160: Rethinking the pricing mechanism
March 26, 2022 21:22 - 10 minutes - 20.2 MBPrice clears more than demand and supply, it clears our way of life and so the relationality of it. We explore the potential for the future when we no longer price change out of existence.
#159: Southern civilisation
March 21, 2022 22:31 - 25 minutes - 48.3 MBWe look at what would mark an irreconcilable difference in civilisation and so through this designate it as other. We approach this through the south that is marginalised as a result of our northern hemisphere centric "world view"
#158: The self that needs help
March 18, 2022 00:07 - 18 minutes - 35 MBThe self we help when marginally given to life, maintains the way of not questioning it to never see beyond the roles we invest this help in. We explore
#157: The rise of authoritarianism
March 12, 2022 23:37 - 20 minutes - 37.5 MBWe explore how the rise of authoritarianism is inextricably connected to the form of life of the consumer, and how the spiritual poverty of the "modern world" blinds us to the repercussions of it.
#156: Our unavowed religiosity
March 10, 2022 21:54 - 13 minutes - 24.8 MBHow can you economise something that doesn't exist? What happens when our actions necessitates we absence our ourselves to generate a return, when we are never there, given as indivisible. We explore how our actions are expiation rites of a perverse religiosity.
#155: The diminishing return
March 07, 2022 00:59 - 20 minutes - 39 MBDoes the way values become part of marketing, indicate what at first glance would seem improbable, that the form of life of the consumer is failing? We explore this scenario
#154: Shared value creation substitutes for shared creation
March 02, 2022 21:13 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBWe look at how "shared value creation" of corporate social responsibility substitutes for shared creation. Audio ends abruptly
#153: A common surpassing
February 27, 2022 21:51 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBWe explore the civilisational enterprise of a common surpassing, and why it is a necessity to potentialise the future beyond the holding pattern we have accepted for life.
#152: The conversation in our head
February 24, 2022 22:27 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWould we ever think our talking to ourselves is contingent on the way time is given to us as an economic good? If there is a totalising claim made on life through its presupposition, a cognitive domain is created as a result. We explore.
#151: Action: Return or releasement?
February 20, 2022 21:53 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBBusiness activity seeks a return, creativity seeks a releasement. We explore the way of our releasement beyond the consumer we otherwise take ourselves for.
#150: Getting ahead?
February 16, 2022 22:14 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBWhat does "getting ahead" mean when the form of life of the consumer is the determiner for life. Will life forever be a buyers journey we cannot get ahead of. We discuss
#149: Beyond good & evil
February 12, 2022 00:13 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWe look at how action can be beyond good or evil, if the form of life is what is being addressed to allow people to be indivisibly given rather than being supplementary. We discuss
#148: The collapsing of timelines
February 08, 2022 20:54 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBSo often heard, yet what does this mean? Is it even possible when the matter of our rivalry is to secure our time against each other? Can time be collapsed if it is still an economic good? We discuss.
#147: Democratisation of creativity
February 06, 2022 02:03 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWhat would be involved if we each took our turn to animate creation of the world beyond the way it is given? The rule of people would be given to potentialise life beyond the market made for it. We discuss.
#146: The ”good” of visibility
February 01, 2022 22:20 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBWhy is visibility a good? We explore this through the way we are marginally given to life when we presuppose time needs to be secured, so is individualised by attributing a value for the independence we seek.
#145: What parallel economy?
January 29, 2022 21:46 - 6 minutes - 6.18 MBA parallel economy that does not differ from the current one, holds out no change for the world, it is rather reactive and so seeks to preserve what already is rather than see an opportunity for life beyond the commerce it is otherwise framed through. We discuss.
#144: The consumer as a form of life
January 26, 2022 02:14 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBIs the consumer a rivalrous form of life? What is the nature of this rivalry? We explore the way how time is given to us that makes the substitutable activity of consumption an effect of a rivalry we would not recognise is its very cause.
#143: The difference between good will & social capital
January 21, 2022 23:05 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBWe explore the difference between good will and social capital through the relationality our way of life legitimises. For change to occur good will has to demonstrated or be embodied as an ethos to implicate what is otherwise never questioned when social capital is conflated as being the same. We discuss
#142: The ”lifetime value” of our way of life
January 18, 2022 00:52 - 10 minutes - 9.92 MBWhat is the value of being given as a consumer of life? Do we ever consider our lives holistically in reference to our way of life, whereby the value of our lives is given beyond what we presuppose? What would be the ultimate value we are oblivious to? We discuss.
#141: More on a dystopian future
January 12, 2022 22:13 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBWe explore trends that highlight we are beholden to the marginality of our time, or the no-place for the market for our time. We can read these developments in light of a totalising claim that is always transcendent to the benefit sold for them.
#140: Existential arbitrage
January 08, 2022 22:41 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWe arbitrage time when given as an economic good what are the repercussions for doing so? We discuss.
#139: Deleuze’s dark precursor & the larval self
January 04, 2022 22:03 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBWe explore the post consumer transitioning by utilising the Deleuzian concepts of the dark precursor and the larval self to frame this change.
#138: The eye of the needle
January 01, 2022 23:08 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBWe explore Christ's statement in reference to the excluded middle of exchange, to see where the "kingdom of God" is potentialised.
#137: Rethinking trans-humanism
December 29, 2021 04:45 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBThe development A.I and trans-humanism if not read in connection to the form of life of the consumer will be given with a sense of inevitability only because we have yet to reveal our lives contingency. The form of life determines an orientation of development we explore this in reference to our way of life and the cognitive domain it sanctions.
#136: The question of justice
December 26, 2021 23:41 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBWhen time is given as an economic good, so is a totalising claim made on life is this principle injustice we must address in life? We discuss
#135: The phoenix & the excluded middle
December 23, 2021 05:51 - 19 minutes - 18 MBThe excluded middle of exchange can become a sanctuary, where the phoenix regenerates through a civilisational alchemy. We discuss
#134: To fund the relation beyond the reduction
December 19, 2021 20:37 - 22 minutes - 21.1 MBA dark precursor makes us receptive to what comes, to fund the relation beyond the reduction of want is a step that transitions us to be post consumer. We explore.
#133: Nietzsche‘s last man
December 16, 2021 23:23 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBIs the "global reset" an attempt to prolong the life of the "last man"? We explore how it can be seen this way if the consumer is considered the form to be preserved as a civilisational ideal.
#132: Rethinking sovereignty
December 14, 2021 21:44 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBWe explore sovereignty in reference to ideals used to justify a certain understanding of it, and so maintain a way of life that does not offer a way or surpassing what is presupposed with it.
#131: Discretionary spending v discernment
December 11, 2021 20:54 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBTo discern difference is to bring to bear an insight into what would appear marginal, but only through time open out a world that lay hidden. We explore the potential of discernment through our discretionary spending.
#130: What is post consumer branding?
December 09, 2021 01:39 - 9 minutes - 9.03 MBHow can you brand when life is post the consumer? Where is the "market" when we are on the other side of being market oriented? We explore the transition, through the seemingly paradoxical.
#129: The great resignation
December 06, 2021 03:22 - 9 minutes - 9.04 MBBeyond the work life balance there is another issue at play, the diminishing return on the form of life. We explore the "great resignation" in reference to this.
#128: The churn of civilisation
November 30, 2021 21:13 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBWe explore the way of rotating out of our paradigm by looking at the "agitation" churn entails for a way of life when people are no longer loyal to being given as consumers
#127: Want of self
November 27, 2021 22:49 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MBWe explore the myriad ways the "want of self" can be demonstrated when our agency is defined through the form of life of the consumer.
#126: Our passivity
November 21, 2021 21:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBWhen we accept time as a thing, we do not question the claim made on our lives this passivity entails. To be intentional is to be aware, is to actively question what we accept to reveal our potential to act and so change ourselves in a way we never thought possible. We discuss
#125: The fatigue of securing
November 17, 2021 21:22 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBThe labour of securing time against the relationality being market oriented entails fatigues us. We explore the demand modernity makes on us, that is the lie we keep telling ourselves in the hope someday it be true.
#124: For the global pause to become a break
November 14, 2021 00:18 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBTo break with our way of doing things that has lead to the position we face off with today we have to realise our complicity, otherwise we will not create beyond the self imposed holding pattern for life. We discuss