Global Pause - Rethink the Future

Global Pause - Rethink the Future

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Global Pause - Rethink the Future episodes

  • #163: No place
    We 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
    14 min
  • #162: How a product return can be used
    We 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.
    15 min
  • #161: The self we esteem
    Does 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.
    19 min
  • #159: Southern civilisation
    We 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"
    26 min
  • #157: The rise of authoritarianism
    We 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.
    21 min
  • #156: Our unavowed religiosity
    How 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.
    14 min
  • #155: The diminishing return
    Does 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
    21 min

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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…