It’s come time for me to “declare victory” on two projects. 1) The Institute for Collapsonomics got going on this blog well over two years ago, in March 2009. The US has just narrowly avoided a sovereign default at which point there is no further need to argue about whether economic risks to the global [...]
Read more →Umair Haque would like a taste of power. My suggestion is: let’s leave those stuck in a predictable, homogeneous, stagnating, we’d-believe-you-more-if-you-were-an-old-white-dude past in the past. Let’s smash through the iron curtains of the status quo–by creating the future. {source: Sidenotes: Smashing The Status Quo’s Iron Curtains} The reason the Old White Dudes (OWD) are in [...]
Read more →Nick Stewart invited me to the Winchester School of Art to do a talk on The Future We Deserve, and to do a panel discussion with him afterwards. I think you’ll agree we had a fascinating time. I’m very pleased with this video because at last there’s a coherent explanation of the models behind The [...]
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Read more →(in support of Why Nothing Works, my contribution to the Age of Warlord Entrepreneurs project) The Goat Rodeo is a specific aspect of the Wicked Problem space. The Goat Rodeo refers to the complex political structures we build to address Wicked Problems. I’m really just suggesting that these structures are inherently flawed, and when you [...]
Read more →Degovernancing: to reduce the need for governance in a situation, frequently by intentional structural change. To buy each child their own version of a toy to reduce fights about sharing is an example of degovernancing. Relevant background material matrix government (highly relevant), infrastructure for anarchists and the Leashless Manifesto Why is this necessary? The strategic [...]
Read more →Isn’t that magnificent? Nice work guys.
Read more →I moved to Cloughjordan, Ireland, to help with an ecovillage project here. You can find links and the start of a resource map at that link. There’s also this excellent map. Click the picture, then click “SATELLITE” on the tab which opens, and you can click on the houses and land features to see pictures. [...]
Read more →Mark Charmer of Akvo and I discussing the next step in the evolution of the use video and the internet for development. We discuss the work developing world oriented artists like MIA and Die Antwoord and speculate that we need friendly MTV VJ-style hosts to make the context around the direct video reporting from development [...]
Read more →I go feral fast. That wouldn’t surprise anybody who really knows me, but the years I spent on the road in America in my twenties aren’t easy to see, here in the last year of my thirties. It’s 2011, and I’m sitting beside a cheap tent in a big, dark wood surrounded on all sides [...]
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