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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#76: Rethinking the movement of minimalism
May 06, 2021 00:56 - 19 minutes - 18 MBAs a response to "consumerism" minimalism seeks to address the ills the plague modern life, we explore it in light of what it doesn't question to reveal its limitations.
#75: Rethinking community to be a people
April 26, 2021 22:18 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBWhat sense of community can we have when the relationally of want underpins our being-together?. We explore the potential for a people from the "communities" that populate online.
#74: Rethinking the buyers journey called life
April 17, 2021 01:16 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBOur way of life is totalising but is it wholistic? We explore our journey from the scene of our judgement before the god of the dead.
#73: How is a post growth world possible
April 11, 2021 23:01 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBHow do you transition to a post growth world? Would this entail being post consumer? We discuss this in light of the potential that lies between.
#72: The no ones
April 04, 2021 20:35 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBThe no ones are presupposed, yet the no ones by being as such can evade capture to potentialise life in a different way. We explore their possibility to create
#71: Democratising creativity
March 28, 2021 05:55 - 37 minutes - 34 MBCan we rethink democracy to revolutionise its potential though in a way that is completely at odds with how it has been given thus far? We discuss this in reference to creativity
#70: Rethinking money in light of what we value
March 24, 2021 02:37 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBHow do we value beyond our own time, such that money has to be given differently for this value to release the existential claim we are beholden to. We discuss
#69: A new way of life is always marginal
March 16, 2021 23:43 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBWe are marginal, yet this fault line can be potentialised in a way we gather together, and so separate out a new form of life to be given. We discuss.
#68: Rethinking God
March 14, 2021 04:51 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIf creativity is between can we rethink God in light of this, so potentialise the process of creation beyond the way it is currently given. We discuss.
#67: Rethinking life as a holding pattern
March 09, 2021 23:13 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBIs our way of life a holding pattern legitimised through the spiritual aspiration that seeks releasement from whats binds? To qualify life as diminutive can only be achieved in reference to the vision that sustains it. We discuss.
#66: Rethinking the potential of our past time
March 03, 2021 23:22 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBWhat is a past time, is there any potential in what we secure and consider as such? We explore this, by seeing past our time as an economic good, to the creativity latent there.
#65: Rethinking the indivisibility of a people
February 28, 2021 02:27 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWhat would make the indivisibility of a people a possibility? We explore how creativity can potentialise the relationality of want so as to reveal the division of labour as contingent of the ideal of independence we would claim.
#64: Rethinking people before profit again
February 23, 2021 08:57 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBCan people ever be put before profit? If we do not consider the difference between originary and derivative profit then the way towards this eventually will remain elusive. We discuss.
#63: Rethink dystopia in light of our unavowed utopianism
February 19, 2021 01:24 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThe way our time gets enframed as supplementary potentialises dystopia within our unavowed utopianism. We discuss what we need to see to avoid the trap we inadvertently set for ourselves
#62: Rethinking what would make our life sustainable
February 15, 2021 00:26 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBDoes the way sustainability is framed obscure the underlying issue of our way of life such that the way of addressing it is compromised through the unquestioned givens never problematised as a result. We discuss
#61: Eschatology: the end of our time as an economic good?
February 11, 2021 23:27 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThe end of time as we know it, would that simply be our time framed as an economic good? Who would believe, and does it really need believers anyway for it to become true. We discuss
#60: Rethinking time when accepted as an economic good
February 08, 2021 01:40 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBWhat happens to life when time becomes an economic good? Do we accept a holding pattern of our own making legitimised through our aspirations such we never question the qualitative difference when time is received this way? We discuss.
#59: The movement from demand to command
February 04, 2021 01:58 - 18 minutes - 17.7 MBAs consumers we demand, this is the extent of our agency; but what if we considered our agency from the command implicit within the sovereignty we don't demonstrate what would that potentialise....a world? We discuss
#58: A house divided against itself
January 31, 2021 21:16 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBAre we any less religious for our secularism? If what we maintain in our way of life is a way of immanentising the afterlife in our everydayness then the process of secularisation is not as clear cut as it would seem. We discuss
#57: Beyond corporatism
January 28, 2021 22:53 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBCorporatism equals managerialism, what can we do to remove ourselves from the claim it has? If we manage ourselves we mirror what we find in the world, we are implicated in a way that means change would have to be considered holistic. We discuss.
#56:Rethinking community
January 26, 2021 00:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBCan we share community when our relationality is underwritten by the preeminent good of our time for the sake of our wants? Does the potential for community exist in the marginality we inadvertently accept for ourselves when market oriented. We discuss.
#55: Holding pattern or line of flight?
January 23, 2021 22:56 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBOur market oriented way of life is a holding pattern, but how is this so and where is the possibility for a line of flight? We discuss.
#54: Rethinking the slow movement
January 18, 2021 23:54 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBOur way of life sets a frenetic pace, that is akin to a vicious circle. Can we slow down or should we rather abandon this way in favour of a pace more in keeping with the natural rhythms of life. We discuss
#53: Rethinking people before profit
January 16, 2021 21:35 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBWe often hear this but is this even possible if we do not consider what underwrites our way of life; how we make others a means. We discuss.
#52: Rethinking consumer sovereignty
January 14, 2021 00:39 - 20 minutes - 19 MBWhat does consumer sovereignty become when average social relations are potentialized from want to creativity. We discuss.
#51: Rethinking choice in light of the supplement
January 11, 2021 20:49 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBWe reserve time as a supplement so the choices that would potentialise life have to considered in light of this given, we discuss.
#50: Unmarketing the relation
January 06, 2021 19:54 - 15 minutes - 14 MBTo unmarket our way of life is to dispose of the way of our communication when beholden to marketing. We explore this transition in greater detail.
#49: Social distancing has always been our way
January 04, 2021 21:48 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBWhen independence is considered an ideal whereby you must secure it against the "they" we set in motion a way of life that has at its core social distancing as an ideal. We discuss
#48: The indivisibility of creativity
January 03, 2021 23:05 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBIf we are marginal, then to potentialise our lives through an indivisible creativity would be a way of over overcoming our slightness. We discuss the way towards this
#47: Purgatory is our way
January 03, 2021 00:47 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBIs life about securing credit for the afterlife of our labouring? If so are we substantiating purgatory as a way of life and the marketing of visions to console us with? We discuss.
#46: The meaning of our way of life
January 02, 2021 03:31 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBWe are market oriented, but what exactly does that mean? We explore this question with a view to surpassing it.
#45: Rethinking our time in light of our indivisibility
December 31, 2020 03:07 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBIf we are marginal, in the sense we are a means towards the end of life we presuppose, we look at our indivisibility as the ideal we should aspire to in our way towards it.
#44: Rethinking the good of visibility & consumption
December 28, 2020 23:28 - 20 minutes - 19 MBWe explore consumption in light of the "good of visibility" our way of life engenders when the want of self reigns and how appearance can initiate an encounter with an order removed from the claim of want.
#43: Rethinking zero growth
December 28, 2020 02:25 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBFor zero growth to be achievable it has to be an effect of our way of life and not a goal. We explore this through questioning how our market oriented way of life legitimises consumption as a substitutable activity for richer shared experiences.
#42:The difference in social credit systems - gratitude
December 24, 2020 01:19 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBIf our unavowed utopianism allows dystopian proclivities the ability to grow through dispensing "social credit" that marginalises what is already marginal, to rethink credit in light of gratitude becomes all the more pressing.
#41: Reimagining the solstice
December 21, 2020 08:28 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBSomething a bit different; we discuss the solstice and the grand conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn in light of giving & receiving in a way that pays reverence towards life
#40: Unmarket yourself
December 20, 2020 01:53 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBTo be market oriented makes want primary because money is a given, to unmarket life is to make creativity primary because our time is given beyond the economic good we currently receive it as. We discuss.
#39: Rethinking giving & receiving
December 16, 2020 22:30 - 26 minutes - 24 MBWe look at how we give and receive and how this substantiates the "marginal" self we presuppose in our market oriented way of life. We explore possibility beyond this impasse.
#38: What revolution?
December 14, 2020 21:57 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBWhat would a revolution look like when removing the marginality in the way we give and receive ourselves is the issue to be addressed. We explore.
#37: Social credit qualifying worth
December 13, 2020 20:16 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBWe look at social credit as a way of qualifying the "good" of the market to ration in light of its explicit politicisation
#36: What is Ekstanomics?
December 10, 2020 23:57 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBWhy framing movement from our marginality to our indivisibility requires conceptualising a new form of study and understanding. We discuss
#35: Rethinking protest
December 07, 2020 22:22 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBWe look at protest and its limitation for change in light of the marginality we accept when our agency is not fully harnessed through the democratisation of creativity.
#34: Rethinking our "timelines"
December 05, 2020 22:51 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBHow do you potentialise our time to see beyond the unavowed utopianism we are beholden to? We look at the exception that can be made to put this into to play.
#33: Rethinking the transition to a post consumer world
December 03, 2020 23:37 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBTransitioning to a post consumer world, what is put into play for "branding" if this were to occur? We explore this in greater detail.
#32: Rethinking opportunity cost
November 30, 2020 18:59 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBIf we do not consider there is an option to our way of life how will we ever regard the cost of our actions? We look at the way towards opportunity when considered a market one, in contrast to one beyond it.
#31: Rethinking what is an externality
November 28, 2020 22:39 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWhat do we externalise for the good of our want? Can we even acknowledge we do when opportunity for life is never given beyond the market. We discuss.
#30: Rethinking thanksgiving
November 26, 2020 18:47 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBThe way how we give and receive determine the possibility for gratitude. We look at our market oriented way of life in light of the holiday that celebrates giving thanks.
#29: Rethinking dystopia
November 24, 2020 18:48 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBWhy is security always touted as a pretext for the removal of freedom? We look at our unavowed utopianism in light of the political developments it substantiates.
#28: Rethinking emergence of culture from the market
November 22, 2020 21:06 - 27 minutes - 25 MBCulture is not an asset, so how do you take our understanding of human action when reduced to want to potentialise it beyond this reduction? We look at what can emerge from our market oriented way of life when creativity becomes the given.
#27: Rethinking education of "life"
November 21, 2020 19:04 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBWe presuppose our way of life, so hand it down to our children so that they may become as marginal as what we are. We question the "real world" in light of this initiation.