39 Human Geographer Oli Mould on Individualism in the Common Society

“Self interest or individualism is about prioritising the self as the vehicle to progress society. Whereas self care is about understanding that I need care in order to continue to be selfless,” human geographer Oli Mould notes, while sharing his ideas about a healthy way of shaping common, empathetic society and finding our role in it.

Is creativity being abused by capitalism? How can subcultures recreate the city? Is progress always a positive term? Does society exist at all or is it just a crowd of individuals? Eventually, how do we include the ones who harm us? We touch an array of broad subjects which in the end sum up to a rather rhetorical key question – what's a healthy way of co-existing?

Oli Mould is a researcher and a lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has recently published a book „Against Creativity“.

Interview, editing and visual art by Urte Karalaite

Music by Filipe Raposo

This episode is part of a limited series with foreign speakers brought to you by law firm Glimstedt Lithuania. These talks are additional to the regular podcast episodes which come out twice a month. This episode is in English only.

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