Category: General

  • Narratives of “A Neo-Distributist Proposal”

    I’ve been thinking about Distributism as a post-growth political economy since reading Hillaire Belloc’s The Serville State a few year ago. In the article below, @ChrisSmaje (Author of #ASmallFarmFuture) outlines four commitments of a possible neo-distributist movement. “These are the four commitments ….as the essence of a neo-distributist movement. First, the autonomy-in-community of local livelihood-making,…

  • Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    Earth Day Every Day: Re-thinking our Relationship with the Earth

    This Earth Day let’s look deeper at the problems behind the problems in our world. What would it mean for us to begin a discussion about changing the way we perceive the world and how we act in it? This Earth Day, ask yourself what’s the story you have about the Earth? What is your…

  • Doomer Optimism and Narrative Dynamics

    This is a series of tweets I publised today as a response to Ashley Colby’s (@RizomaFieldSchool) tweet on hand-washing clothes and dishes. The tweet acted as a perfect attractor for many of the ideas about complexity, economics, narrative and pattern language that I’m researching for my PhD Comps Exam and developing towards the research element.…

  • First Thoughts on The Dawn Of Everything by Wengrow & Graeber

    This is a huge book- both in its ground-breaking content and its physical size! Here the authors challenge the entrenched narratives that the pre-agricultural world was either a primitive Eden of small egalitarian hunter-gatherers (Rosseau) or nasty, brutush and short, requiring heirachy and governance to quell our worst natures (Hobbes). For someone like me researching…

  • Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.

    Grasping The Sparrow’s Tail: Thoughts on Inviting Movement Back into our Lives.

    I let my intuition explore connections between shifts in seasonal farming patterns, Graber and Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything’, Tai Chi and Panarchy, and the importance of metaphors, stories and narratives in understanding and action.