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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#26: Rethinking place in light of our unavowed utopianism
November 19, 2020 21:30 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBHow can we move to richer experiences of life when it would seem our movement is towards the removal of ourselves? We address place through the lens of our unavowed utopianism that holds sway to compromise any sense of place we can share.
#25: Rethinking rendering unto caesar
November 16, 2020 23:49 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBWe look at what would appear to be 2 irreconcilable statements of Christ, in light of what we can potentialise in our everydayness.
#24: Rethinking Nietzsche's mad man
November 15, 2020 21:03 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBWe explore the mad man whom accosts the people in the market place in light of the God he failed to see, and the potential for the "transvaluation of values"
#23: Rethinking justice
November 12, 2020 23:30 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBWe look to reframe the question of justice from the marginality of our time when we receive it as an economic good. The indivisibility of time is compromised through the way of life we presuppose through our unquestioning acceptance.
#22: Rethinking the "good" of want
November 09, 2020 22:19 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBWe look at the primacy of want when we define our agency according to it. How does the claim towards life work through what we presuppose, do we in fact consume our want as our way rather than create a way of removing it.
#21: Rethinking the possibility for democracy
November 08, 2020 17:23 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBWhen we think of democracy we invariably think of governmental organisation but is there another way to think its potential? We pose this question in light of the creativity we do not animate when market oriented, and the individuation of "life" this entails that disempowers the "demos" of self rule.
#20: Rethinking afterlife sabbath retirement supplement
October 30, 2020 16:02 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBWe rethink our way of life by looking at the 7 days of creation as the model for our working week. We consider this in light of the potential nested within the supplement of time we reserve for ourselves that has direct correlations with "redemptive" understanding of time.
#19: Rethinking learning money
October 24, 2020 20:54 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBMoney is a given, and so we give money to our children to learn. What is put into play when the sheer claim of money has on our temporality is not given with this lesson? What do we disinhibit in our way towards life we supposed for our children? We cover questions such as these in latest episode.
#18: Rethinking the marginality of how our time is given
October 17, 2020 23:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBMoney claims us absolutely when our time is made marginal by being producible as an economic good. We look at the consequences of this when we equate our time into money .
#17: Rethinking "making a living"
October 11, 2020 05:22 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBWhat do we make living when we are intent on making a living? We explore this question in light of the disavowed Utopianism of our market oriented way of life that makes our striving for life not as clear as what it would appear at 1st glance.
#16: Rethinking monies removal
October 04, 2020 09:20 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBWhen our time is made marginal by becoming accountable through the use of money we create the grounds for its presupposition. It's continual development to the point of its virtualisation, or democratisation in peer-to-peer forms offers nothing in the way of this surpassing. We look at this from monies potential removal our praxis facilitates when we no longer accept our time equals it.
#15: Rethinking loyalty to our way of life
September 27, 2020 21:42 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBWe are loyal to our way of life, we accept our way of doing things such that our loyalty is given without questioning why? Why are we loyal to a way of life that takes as a given a reduction in our agency and creativity, why accept passivity, cynicism, and the ills of our way of life when what is possible to us to create remains open. We explore these themes in the latest episode.
#14: Rethinking money & goodwill
September 20, 2020 21:34 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBGoodwill is an intangible, for a new way of giving and receiving to occur this "asset" must be released from the balance sheet of civilisation. We see this happening as a necessity, as the use of money inhibits the circulation of this good to animate the creation of a world that is not given with its use.
#13: Rethinking the possibility for art
September 13, 2020 21:07 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBIf to be market oriented means to be a consumer, then we are primarily a product or commodity of our way of life. We look at the possibility for art in light of surpassing this reduction. For it is only through an artful way of giving and receiving ourselves will the possibility for art be given like a commodity is today.
#12: Rethinking cynicism & thought crime
August 31, 2020 20:33 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBPossibility always has context from which it arises. What is considered possible invariably is entertained as a "thought crime" from the prevailing world view. If our context is a "market oriented way of life" what thought crime must be entertained to overcome the pervasive cynicism our way of life engenders. To entertain being at odds with what is currently given does not involve senseless violence but rather how we play host to a disease we take exception to. It always must come back to ...
#11: Rethinking the "want of self" the market maintains
August 16, 2020 04:18 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBTo be market oriented is to accept the"want of self" as an unquestioned given, as this orientation reduces the scope of ones agency. We look at how "enterprising the good" overcomes this impoverishment by harnessing creativity beyond the model of the good life that is touted and secured against "the they", to potentialise the they as the means of surpassing this want that is currently accepted as a given.
#10: Rethinking what we value in light of gratitude
August 03, 2020 07:36 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBTo value what is otherwise made secondary or subordinate to our time is critical if we are to animate a new way of doing things. We relook at what we can value in light of a gratitude possible when the exception to an exchange occurs. To give thanks is to move beyond cynicism and reflect upon absence to see what is possible to us now.
#9: Rethinking our market orientated way of life
July 20, 2020 08:57 - 22 minutes - 21 MBA market orientated way of life, begs the question exactly what it is we are orientated to! If we say we are orientated to the satisfaction of our wants then we conceal from ourselves what is at issue in this orientation as time underwrites all exchanges, or all satisfaction of our wants. Where is this orientation to our time? Where is the market for our time when we secure it as a supplement or economic good? We take a closer look at this issue to reveal the civilisational impasse we are gr...
#8: Rethinking rationing through the exception
July 06, 2020 08:48 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBWe explore how the exception can weave itself into commercial activity potentialising both consumption and production through the culture that emerges outside the market. This new way of cooperating rations the potential of the exception occurring through the acts of people whom give their time to nurture the very culture that makes this possible. What occurs is the incremental un-marketing that enables us to give and receive in an entirely different way.
#7: Rethinking possibility in light of overcoming cynicism
June 22, 2020 06:44 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBAs values are contested in "the market" any transvaluation of values needs to be engendered in this arena of human activity. Yet how can the latent creativity be potentialised when "marketing" & "branding" is the language used. How can we elude the accusation of seeing every offering as just another way to sell our arses. We approach the question of cynicism through the exception and how the circuit breaker enables us to get over ourselves to start to animate creation, rather than accepting ...
#6: Rethinking choice in light of the potential latent within our commerce
June 12, 2020 08:07 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBWe start to tease out the potential that is open to us. We do this by looking at the nature of the exceptions we make when making decisions according to our values exemplified in "conscious consumption". We see this trend as harnessing the latent agency though not to the degree necessary to initiate the emergence of a new way of life from the holding pattern of consumerism and relating to each other through our wants.
#5: Rethinking want and the self
May 31, 2020 06:49 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBWhen time equals money we ensure want persists irrespective of whether we glory in the signs of our supposed transcendence wealth comes to symbolise. We can only approximate the sovereignty we seek to emulate as we do not create through making an exception to a way of life that make our temporality a thing and so perpetuates the holding pattern of consumption where we consume the want of this self, through the visions we entertain.
#4: Rethinking the model of consumption
May 26, 2020 12:45 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThe good of visibility underwrites the models legitimacy to orientate human activity into the holding patterns of ever increasing acquisitive consumption. We look at why visibility as a good needs to be overcome to move beyond the order of the model that currently predominates.
#3 Rethinking the holding pattern of consumerism
May 03, 2020 09:34 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBWhy is consumption a way of life? What unquestioned given legitimises this activity? We set out to explore a different way of framing the issue so as to bring to light the unintended consequences of our actions when we take the pursuit of lifestyle as the goal for our lives.
#3: Rethinking the holding pattern of consumerism
May 03, 2020 09:34 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBWhy is consumption a way of life? What unquestioned given legitimises this activity? We set out to explore a different way of framing the issue so as to bring to light the unintended consequences of our actions when we take the pursuit of lifestyle as the goal for our lives.
#2: Rethinking exchange to reveal the root of the problem
April 22, 2020 05:04 - 14 minutes - 19.6 MBTo understand how a market orientated way of life has created a holding pattern of consumption we need to unearth unquestioned givens of our way of life. We set out to rethink economic exchanges we enter into every single day to reveal "the good" that inadvertently keeps us beholden to the limitations & ills of this way of life.
intro: To change the world means to change ourselves
April 11, 2020 17:57 - 12 minutes - 3.66 MBWhat way is open to effectuate a cultural renewal that would pivot our global civilisation to a new fate, in so doing allow our flourishing? In this intro to the series of podcasts that follow we look to detail the way that is open to us now. How a market orientated way of life is the given we must work with if we are to ennoble human action and so move beyond the holding pattern thats sees us feed upon what would give us life, our very selves!
intro: Want to change the world? Learn how we can do this together.
April 11, 2020 17:57 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBIf we want to change the world how do we go about doing this? What way is open to effectuate a cultural renewal that would pivot our global civilisation to a new fate. In this intro to the series of podcasts that follow we look to detail the way that is open to us, now. How a market orientated way of life is the given we must work with if we are to ennoble human action and move beyond the holding pattern of consumption.