We chickened out on this episode back in October 2024, concerned about violent fascist retribution. But today that's just a regular Tuesday, and all kinds of rough beasts are slouching towards Bethlehem. So we're putting it up - an investigative piece with Pospi (non-binary computer-toucher) bringing receipts for what used to be the 'quiet parts' of the alt-centre in regen tech razzle dazzle. The promise was decentralisation, data sovereignty and distributed governance, but beneath the surface, dark money, dark influence and dark deeds were afoot...

The receipts: https://drive.proton.me/urls/GFS11V7KH4#Df2oUMvLSzhL

Books and articles we mention-

https://www.beceremonial.com/blog/the-ring-theory-can-support-you-during-a-crisis/

https://www.uqp.com.au/books/talkin-up-to-the-white-woman-indigenous-women-and-feminism-20th-anniversary-edition

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53260224-white-tears-brown-scars

https://centreforexperimentalontology.com/2021/03/22/acceleration-and-time-mina-baek/

https://centreforexperimentalontology.com/introduction/introduction-to-the-theory-of-pneuminous-accretions-a-phenomenological-chaos-magickal-ontology/

Yarn with Quan Yeomans from the band Regurgitator, on screenwriting, industrialised music and whether truth-telling still works in a post-truth world.

Abdul Semakula working some magic in Uganda, putting the impala back into Kampala, working with limited resources to redefine what real estate means in communities, regenerating land and clan governance structures using Indigenous systems knowledge.

PK and me might have figured out how to make sustainability goals and regenerative finance work without anybody having to be tricked, guilted or scared into paying the bill. Biomass equity could save the world and make capitalism finally deliver on its broken promises - rising tides lifting all boats, infinite growth and free market miracles.

Paul Kearney: https://kearneygroup.com.au/our-story/our-team/

Jack and Tyson from the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab yarning up from a lawstick that carries the principles of kodesign as a method of embedding your work in living systems of signals. Link to the digital twin of the lawstick here:

https://vimeo.com/885511741?share=copy

Yarn with JMB trying to make sense of the marketplace of nature-based and Indigenous Knowledge-informed alternative economies and finance, in light of the rapidly changing global landscape at this fraught inflection point in history. Some ideas for hope and altering our theories of change in response to our cataclysmic new reality, pondering Serpent Lore and the brilliant 2024 film that most people missed, Blink Twice.

watch trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcmfonGWY4

Imagi-Nation: https://imagi-nation.io/

The Viking Yarns are back! Rune Rasmussen in our most coherent yarn yet. I must have needed the break. I was tired as hell. Anyway, the phrase that sticks out for me is about new-ageism as 'European self-colonising whiteness'. Some deadly Viking serpent Lore as well.

Gabriella Romero and Nkwi Flores from Amazon Andes First Peoples talk about the embassy we're making with eucalypts in diaspora, Indigenous borderwork, kinmaking and migration. And the poxy US elections.

Apologies for so long between episodes. All is explained in this yarn with Kabir Kadre (wounded mystic) and Eric Hekler (former techno-utopian), as we explore the cataclysmic shifting of overton windows, faith and empiricism during the terrifying inflection point of a US election that is destabilizing systems globally.