or in other words: For those of us who lived our ‘coming out’ years in the 80s and 90s, we were faced with a situation of ‘vocalization or annihilation’. While Silence is a privileged modality in contemporary Buddhist circles, for queers like me, Silence = Erasure, Invisibility. Silence = Death, psychic, social and physical. I can sit silently in… Read More The Art of Life and Politics: Silence = Death
[Editor: I’m republishing some things from P2P Foundation, run by Michel Bauwens. Michel and I are fellow travellers, and we share many viewpoints.] Cooperativism in the digital era, or how to form a global counter-economy March 13, 2017 Vasilis Kostakis 5 min read The aim is to go beyond the classical corporate paradigm, and its extractive profit-maximizing practices,… Read More Cooperativism in the Digital Era: A Global Counter-Economy
Manifesto For Utopias Are Over: Cities Are Living Systems March 14, 2017 John Thackara 2 min read At the heart of this unfolding transformation is a new story of place. Cities have a crucial role to play as catalysts of the system change we need. 1: Change and innovation are no longer about finely crafted ‘visions’ of some future… Read More Cities as Living Systems
The ideal subject of Fascism is not the loyal Nazi or the ideological fascist—it is the self-absorbed Buddhist who lives in a self-sealing vacuum of narco-leptic meditative states, psychic calm and bliss, unperturbed by Disturbing Historical Memories and Critical Knowledge–all of which are labeled ’empty’ and dismissed from a Buddhist fantasy world of transcendent absolutes. … Read More Bubble Buddhism: the Ideal Fascist Subject
Breaking the System: A Review of Surviving the Future By Erik Curren, originally published by Transition Voice June 28, 2016 Stalin was only one of many revolutionaries to think that you have to break a few eggs to solve big problems. Today, some activists think that you have to break the capitalist system to save… Read More Buddhist Futures: After the Apocalypse
Published on Dec 8, 2013 Urbanatomy’s Nick Land gives us his take on the prompt: “Future Now: Making the Machines of Tomorrow”. This excerpt is part of the Hacked Matter workshop from the 2013 Shanghai Maker Carnival. Watch through to his second remark at 2:18, when he talks about dependent origination: the more we know… Read More Buddhist Futures: Nick Land and the Buddhist [Un]Real
Story by Rev. Janet Kroboth-Weber, Rockland Coordinator of Water Walk for Life, edited by Shaun Bartone, Editor, Engage! The Water Water Walk for Life initiated by the Grafton Peace Pagoda, in Grafton, NY, under the direction of Jun-San Yesuda, Buddhist nun of the Nipponzan Miyohoji order. After an eight-day, 90-mile walk along the Spectra AIM… Read More Water Walk for Life Along Pilgrim Pipeline in Northern New Jersey
