Losing Hope—The Price of Materialism

Losing Hope—The Price of Materialism

AND YET This post is a response to  world where traditional sources of hope and aspiration in our modern world of intensifying consumerism, frustrated rage and anxiety, are no longer available to most of us. And the promises of our political leaders no longer ring...
Complicity, Integrity and Authenticity?

Complicity, Integrity and Authenticity?

Narratives We humans are not a mathematic species who think in numbers. We make sense of the world through the stories we construct about how the world around us ‘works’ and we folk of the modern-scientific world use numbers (measurable facts) to anchor...
Reframing the Middle Powers Strategy

Reframing the Middle Powers Strategy

The Old Order is Finished Carney called it out in his Davos speech. The uni-polar Pax American Liberal world order, built on an economic order of extractivist logic and constant growth/expansion, is finished. Trump’s America First, and the rise of neo-nazism across...
Enlivenment as Counter Culture

Enlivenment as Counter Culture

Thanks to Nardine Marfurt for our feature image Counter Culture What does the term ‘counter culture’ bring to mind for most of us? A movement that challenges many of the prevailing set of cultural norms and values in our society; a movement spearheaded by...
A Time of Many Ruptures

A Time of Many Ruptures

The Modernity/Coloniality Complex  Old assumptions and long held beliefs no longer hold. We are being called to face the reality of the modernity/coloniality complex under Pax Americana, which under President Trump’s ‘America First’ is producing the Third Rupture in...
Beyond Carney’s Rupture Speech

Beyond Carney’s Rupture Speech

Sowing New Seeds Indigenous peoples of the world, in the Amazon Basin, Australia and Canada in particular, have long challenged the extractivist intent of First World science when attempting to investigate, categorise and make use of their traditional knowledge about...