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Our annual Surviving the Future live online adventure is now open for enrolment, with fifteen of the fifty places already spoken for.
This winter we will be joined by eight guests, including Nate Hagens (The Great Simplification), Rachel Donald (Planet: Critical), Leah Manaema Avene (Co Culture), Tadzio Müller (KollapsCamp), Mark Boyle (The Way Home) and Isabelle Frémeaux (the ZAD). Not to mention the weekly readings/audio curated in response to our unfolding conversations, experiential exercises designed to take us out of the online 'no-place', social sessions, reflection webinars, highly active forums and our renowned closing carnival! In short, a deep communal experience. And as ever, all offered on trust-based inclusive pricing to ensure that money is never a barrier to those called — or curious — to be with us. Last year the places were all taken by the end of November, and as the exceptionally glowing testimonials attest, co-creating these brave, convivial spaces feels both nourishing and essential, as we grope our way through these times of unravelling together.
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Our annual Surviving the Future live online adventure is now open for enrolment, with fifteen of the fifty places already spoken for.
This winter we will be joined by eight guests, including Nate Hagens (The Great Simplification), Rachel Donald (Planet: Critical), Leah Manaema Avene (Co Culture), Tadzio Müller (KollapsCamp), Mark Boyle (The Way Home) and Isabelle Frémeaux (the ZAD). Not to mention the weekly readings/audio curated in response to our unfolding conversations, experiential exercises designed to take us out of the online 'no-place', social sessions, reflection webinars, highly active forums and our renowned closing carnival! In short, a deep communal experience. And as ever, all offered on trust-based inclusive pricing to ensure that money is never a barrier to those called — or curious — to be with us. Last year the places were all taken by the end of November, and as the exceptionally glowing testimonials attest, co-creating these brave, convivial spaces feels both nourishing and essential, as we grope our way through these times of unravelling together.
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I admit, just about the last place I'd expect to encounter a warm and lengthy review of Lean Logic is the business pages of Canada's
Winnipeg Press... Yet, sure enough,there it is!! |
I admit, just about the last place I'd expect to encounter a warm and lengthy review of Lean Logic is the business pages of Canada's
Winnipeg Press... Yet, sure enough,there it is!! |
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INDIGNATION
"Indignation is an urban emotion: it looks for action to be taken by someone else, believing that the way forward is agitation. It begs the question: if you are indignant about something, it has to be an outrage, and caused by someone other than you—otherwise, of course, you wouldn’t be indignant, would you? And it is urban in the sense that, in the city, it is easy to get away, so you can absent yourself from a conversation, indignantly telling the other person you find his views repugnant. You won’t be needing to borrow his horse.
Out of town, it is different. It is a waste of time being indignant in a field of buttercups. You have to see to it yourself. That may involve time in a circumstance not of your choosing, in a conversation not on your terms."~ from the 'Indignation' entry
of David Fleming's
Dictionary for the Future
and How to Survive It |
INDIGNATION
"Indignation is an urban emotion: it looks for action to be taken by someone else, believing that the way forward is agitation. It begs the question: if you are indignant about something, it has to be an outrage, and caused by someone other than you—otherwise, of course, you wouldn’t be indignant, would you? And it is urban in the sense that, in the city, it is easy to get away, so you can absent yourself from a conversation, indignantly telling the other person you find his views repugnant. You won’t be needing to borrow his horse.
Out of town, it is different. It is a waste of time being indignant in a field of buttercups. You have to see to it yourself. That may involve time in a circumstance not of your choosing, in a conversation not on your terms."~ from the 'Indignation' entry
of David Fleming's
Dictionary for the Future
and How to Survive It |
| For those looking for a good read, two of our Deeper Dive alumni have written fiction books:
Chuck Collins'
Altar to an Erupting Sun
and
Michael Dwyer's
Earthly Threats
While three of our former guests themselves have new works out!
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's
Outgrowing Modernity
Rob Hopkins'
How to Fall in Love with the Future
and Chris Smaje's
Finding Lights in a Dark Age
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For those looking for a good read, two of our Deeper Dive alumni have written fiction books:
Chuck Collins'
Altar to an Erupting Sun
and
Michael Dwyer's
Earthly Threats
While three of our former guests themselves have new works out!
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's
Outgrowing Modernity
Rob Hopkins'
How to Fall in Love with the Future
and Chris Smaje's
Finding Lights in a Dark Age
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While from 18:30 Irish time on Sunday 16th November, I'll be offering a one hour workshop on 'Finding Your Path Through Times of Collapse' as part of the ‘Revolution in the 21st Century Online International Festival'.
Click through for details/registration.
And last week's thoughtful conversation with Joe Brewer of Earth Regenerators as part of The Deep Live Gathering may also interest. |
While from 18:30 Irish time on Sunday 16th November, I'll be offering a one hour workshop on 'Finding Your Path Through Times of Collapse' as part of the ‘Revolution in the 21st Century Online International Festival'.
Click through for details/registration.
And last week's thoughtful conversation with Joe Brewer of Earth Regenerators as part of The Deep Live Gathering may also interest. |
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If you haven't stopped by in a little while, you may not have seen our stunning new Surviving the Future website (above), through which we're cultivating an ever stronger global community (below) of those drawing inspiration from Fleming's work in our lives and communities. Come hang out! |
If you haven't stopped by in a little while, you may not have seen our stunning new Surviving the Future website (above), through which we're cultivating an ever stronger global community (below) of those drawing inspiration from Fleming's work in our lives and communities. Come hang out! |
 | "Lean Logic is a powerful, complex and indispensable vision; the glorious achievement of a lifetime. I only wish I had discovered it earlier.
In this day and age, where political imagination is in short supply, it fills a niche waiting to be discovered by the multitudes... This is a unique and enormously powerful view of the world in which we live, and the one we want to build. We have never seen anything like it.
There is a warmth and inclusiveness in Fleming's prose that makes you want to continue the conversation forever. "
~Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo and Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; author of numerous classics of anthropology
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I think the 'dictionary' approach is brilliant. It's a great way of not only allowing the reader to dip in and out, but it helps dyslexics like me not feel guilty for reading how much we like when we like, and not feeling it's always about going cover to cover! "
~ Benjamin Zephaniah, late poet, novelist, playwright, musician, actor...
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