This meander was stimulated by a recent repudiation by Zizek of the possible role of small communities in any future human flourishing. In this context, I revisit E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful (1973). I discuss some of the core ideas from that seminal work. In particular, I focus on the treatement of raw materials as [inexhaustible] income and the treatement of the environment as a free dump by capitalism and the economic theories that act as its ideological justification. I touch upon intermediate technology, the role of 'spirituality' in the good life, the way in which economic theories and political practice often treat people as numbers on a spreadsheet, the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike and the persistence of alienation in nationalised industries. I do this by discerning Zizek's 'inner Schumacher' and Schumacher's 'inner Zizek' and recounting instances of their expression. In both cases these inner others are mostly repressed, but vigorous enough to surface now and then in brilliant insight. [Free. 47 minutes.]
THE CONVERSATION OF HUMANKIND
CONSPIRACY THEORIES: EPISTEMOLOGY, POLITICS & SELF-CARE
LAOTZU 19
LAO TZU 18
LAO TZU 17
TIMES TURNS ON TORIES, STARMER IN THE MAIL: WHAT'S GOING ON?
THE POETICS OF LIGHT
IS THE PANDEMIC POLITICAL? HELL, YES.
THE ANATOMY OF A TORY
GOVERNMENT UNPREPAREDNESS FOR COVID19 & THE CYGNUS EXERCISE
WHEN MSM TURN ON THE GOVERNMENT
MANAGED OPPOSITION: MSM & POWER DYNAMICS
PANDEMIC TRAUMAS
NATURALLY OCCURRING COMMUNISM
LEAST VALUED, MOST VALUABLE
VIRUS POLITICS
ON APOCALYPSE
CONCENTRATIONS OF WEALTH & POWER AND BIG DATA
THE YOGI AND THE COMMISSAR: REVOLUTION?
RESILIENCE: INTERVIEW WITH GODFREY DEVEREUX
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