by Barbara Lepani | Mar 6, 2026 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Feb 17, 2026 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Feb 9, 2026 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Feb 3, 2026 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Jan 28, 2026 | Our Collective
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...
by Barbara Lepani | Jan 24, 2026 | Our Collective
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...
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