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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... more
FAQs about Global Pause - Rethink the Future:How many episodes does Global Pause - Rethink the Future have?The podcast currently has 273 episodes available.
April 09, 2022#163: No placeWe 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...more14minPlay
April 04, 2022#162: How a product return can be usedWe 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....more15minPlay
March 31, 2022#161: The self we esteemDoes 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....more19minPlay
March 26, 2022#160: Rethinking the pricing mechanismPrice 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....more11minPlay
March 21, 2022#159: Southern civilisationWe 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"...more26minPlay
March 18, 2022#158: The self that needs helpThe 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...more19minPlay
March 12, 2022#157: The rise of authoritarianismWe 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....more21minPlay
March 10, 2022#156: Our unavowed religiosityHow 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....more14minPlay
March 07, 2022#155: The diminishing returnDoes 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...more21minPlay
March 02, 2022#154: Shared value creation substitutes for shared creationWe look at how "shared value creation" of corporate social responsibility substitutes for shared creation. Audio ends abruptly...more23minPlay
FAQs about Global Pause - Rethink the Future:How many episodes does Global Pause - Rethink the Future have?The podcast currently has 273 episodes available.