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Global Pause - Rethink the Future episodes
- #83: The diminishing return of the consumerConsumer activism presupposes change can be effectuated through championing the relationality of want, as any change is always supplementary to the relationality of a market oriented way of life that is never questioned. Change involves shifting the form of life, this form of activism" preserves the form of life as a given so offers nothing "new" or substantive. It can be understood as the diminishing return of the form of life that necessitates "intangibles of values to supplement the poverty of our way of life. There is complicity with "business as usual" approach to change, meaning there is no change at all, but only the semblance of it.27 min
- #82: Is change possible when the world view is never questioned?
What possibility is there for change when unquestioned givens are never challenged. We discuss this in light sustainable development and the imperialism of a form of life.
14 min - #81: To economise time independantTo economise time independent from our want satisfaction is to champion an ideal that legitimises a limitation of human agency. When time is considered a means, it produces a form of life necessary in order for the ideal to be continually accepted, as we are sold on life and the way it is given.22 min
- #80: Rethinking the "circular" economy
Circular economy over linear lives, how can this possibly work for sustainability? We explore the resource never raised when the question of a sustainable future is touted.
17 min - #79:Rethinking economic activity in reference to what underwrites it
If what underwrites exchanges is the preeminent good of our time, then if the future is to be given differently the potential for it exists there. We explore
23 min - #78: Rethinking activism in light of what we don't question
We rethink activism in light of our way of life that is never questioned when this form of action is championed. What is it beholden to that compromises the change it ultimately is oriented towards? We discuss
30 min - #77: Rethinking consumption as a substitutable activity
We explore consumerism in reference to the supplement of time we secure to style it in the manner worthy of our aspirations, and what this means for life.
26 min - #76: Rethinking the movement of minimalism
As 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.
20 min - #75: Rethinking community to be a people
What 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.
23 min - #74: Rethinking the buyers journey called life
Our 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.
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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…
see potential for change that would not just add value to the buyers journey called life, but unmarket it.