The Other Others

I'm having yarns for a new book I'm working on - Plant Talk. Will put them up here as I go along. This one is with South African systems thinker and traditional knowledge keeper, Thomas Mofolo.

It has been a long time between episodes. The yarns never stopped, but my computer did. I'll try to get back on the horse, but my life is insane so can't promise anything. I'm full-time caring for my autistic kids while trying to keep up 40 hours research and writing each week, so my relationships have kinda fallen into disrepair. Sorry about that.

Have been working on our Indigenous Systems Knowledge Collective projects too, which will really be taking off next year and hopefully bring you-all in on some good post-apocalyptic yarns.

https://www.iskcollective.org/

The writers and voices of Jeff the Dog and Jack the Platypus from the new animated film "Imagine" ad lib insane backstories for the characters, and in a universe of endless possibilities manage to go to all the worst places, in a high stakes game to see who breaks character first...

https://imaginefilm.org

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.