Back in January 25, 2018 I published this blog on ‘How can everyone take over the world?’ and ‘Where can I ethically invest?’ An idea that emerged through conversation with Prof. Mike Fischer in 2017 and in reply to Laura BC’s questions. In light of the amazing developments of reddit users vs hedgefunds I thought … Continue reading Capital 4 People: Dissolving Capitalism through Democratizing Capital
Author: khalilavi
The Power of Making Waste
"Taking the analogy of the tree of life, cleaning it to make it conform to a simulation, does not result in success but instead requires constant investment in maintaining this simulation and identifying and cleaning scapegoats that threaten it. To the degree that the well-dressed scarecrow of the managed-administrative-medium becomes the purpose in itself. This … Continue reading The Power of Making Waste
The Mazdoor-Kisan-Strike in India and what we can learn in the UK
Over a quarter of a BILLION people are taking part in the Worker and Peasant Strike in India. That’s almost 3.5% of the world's human population, the number often quoted (albeit problematic) by XR needed for #systemchange. What has this got to do with the UK? If you want to keep up to date with … Continue reading The Mazdoor-Kisan-Strike in India and what we can learn in the UK
Summoning a Sea Demon as Community Art
https://vimeo.com/450043030 What is a demon if not the shared manifestation of a community's creative intersubjectivity. Take Hobbe's Leviathan. It is not simply a visual metaphor but a real and manifested structuring of peoples relations in the form of the leviathan king. How do we talk about and negotiate social forms that transcend reductive rationals and … Continue reading Summoning a Sea Demon as Community Art
Cultivating the ground for cooperative responses to crisis in the UK
Back in March as SARS-CoV-2 was integrating itself into the population of the UK, we – a couple of anthropologists – put our heads together to evaluate the situation. After briefly sketching out the possible scenarios that could emerge in the UK in response to SARS-CoV-2, it became immediately clear there was a short-term and … Continue reading Cultivating the ground for cooperative responses to crisis in the UK
