Analysis
Ideas and analysis to help understand the world.
The Self Under Siege (Part 4) – Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man
Rick Roderick’s great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Marcuse and his theory of the one dimensional man.
Multiculturalism
Where does multiculturalism stand today and is it still a valid project, read more to find out
The Self Under Siege (Part 3) – Sartre and the Roads to Freedom
Rick Roderick’s great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Sartre and existentialism.
The Self Under Siege (Part 2) – Heidegger and the Rejection of Humanism
Rick Roderick’s great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Heidegger and his seminal work Being and Time. – Mike
The Self Under Siege – Masters of suspicion (lecture 1)
Rick Roderick’s great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This is the intro that explains why the self is under siege.
The work ethic
The work ethic, is almost a given that is never questioned, but why do we work the way we do and where does the view that we should work come from, read this to find out more
The Real Economic Scandal: Understanding the Debt-Based Economy
The debt can never be paid off! To understand the economic crisis you need to understand how money is created and some of you may be surprised at how this occurs and why paying off the debt could cause economic collapse.
Film: Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink
Is peak water going to be an issue, can water be better managed, how can business help towards water sustainability, watch this Schumacher talk from Bristol Green Week to find out about this and more.
Film: No more business as usual
What role can business play in addressing environmental issues, can business ever be sustainable and ethical, the panel from a variety of backgrounds from Dragons Den Deborah Meaden, Good Energy’s Juilet Davenport to Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation attempts to address these questions
Film: Clare Hedin: Green Economics. Dynamic Emergence
Is a new convergence possible between humans and nature, Clare Hedin believes that we have to, watch to find out more.
Film: Who says we can manage the planet?
Can we manage the planet Clive Hamilton author of Requiem for a Species, Johnathon Porritt and James Vaccaro of Triodos Bank discuss the issues.
Redefining work in an age of late Capitalism
What could work look like in a different post neoliberal world.
Film: Living memory, Future Worlds: Bristol Voices on Climate Change
What can we learn from the older generation about living in a world of less resource.
Social class and Ecology
How does social class and ecology fit together.
Exploring models of Education: Critical Multiculturalism
What is the potential of critical multiculturalism as a possible educational model of the future.
The Freeman movement
this piece looks at the freeman movement in the UK.
Employability trainers: a valuable people centred resource or lucrative money spinner
What are the real roles of private training companies, in a failing economic system.
Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
How come we seem to have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
The struggle
How our actions can have a very effect as we move away from the old order of capitalism and exploitation towards a permanent culture of the future.
The true origins of the credit crunch
The origins of the credit crunch, want to understand why it happened, the jargon and the ideologies that drove the financial crisis, then read this now!
12 Step programme for Big Business and Governments
12 step programme for governments, capitalists and the ruling class to wean them off accumulation of money and profit and to make amends for the damage they have done.
Are Governments attempting to stop citizens from growing their own food?
Here we look at some of the legislation that is geared towards curbing people growing their own food.
Film: Resilient Farms Conference
Interesting debate on the future and resilience of farming and food production, sustainability of food production, supermarkets and local food production.
Film: November 30th Strike Films uncovering the pensions myths and highlighting the attacks on the general population
Part one pensions myths. Who really gets the gold plated pensions. Part two: The strikes are not just about pensions there is a load of terrible attacks on the lives of people in general by the ConDem government in their drive to shrink and privatise the public...
The Promise
How the promise of cheap oil keeps our society operating.
Agency Versus Structure
Agency and structure are the two biggest issues when it comes to social change, can agency have an impact on structure or does structure define our agency, read more to find out.