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.]
YOGA'S COUNTER-CULTURAL ROOTS
CRYING YOGA
IS ADJUSTMENT OF YOGA POSTURES BY TEACHERS NECESSARY OR USEFUL?
ANUPAYA: PRACTICE WITH THE LIGHTEST TOUCH
THE MYTH OF THE YOGA TEACHER
UTOPIA - HOW & WHY DOES IT HAUNT THOUGHT?
YOGA REGULATION? NO THANKS
VIOLENCE, AHIMSA, SELF-STUDY
MORALITY: CONTINGENCY, LOVE & SELF-ENQUIRY
A CRUEL DECEPTION: THE MANUFACTURE OF DISCONTENT AND THE SPIRITUAL SUPERMARKET
PATANJALI'S ZEN: COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST SIX APHORISMS OF THE YOGA SUTRA
ENERGY MEDITATION
IMAGINATION, SKEPTICISM & WONDER
GETTING INFORMED IN THE INFORMATION AGE
TURBULENCE: TURKEY, BREXIT, THE STRUGGLE FOR THE INTERNET
RE BREXIT [PART TWO]
RE BREXIT [PART ONE]
LETTING BE [PART ONE]: INTRODUCTION TO WU WEI AND ISHVARAPRANIDHANA
INSPIRATION
YOGA AND ANATOMY
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