Never managed to plough through Nordic Ideology? Does reading hurt your eyes? Don’t despair, Nordic Ideology is now available as audio book. Thanks to the help and financial support of our friend, Aurora Quinn-Elmore, both of my books are now available in audio format to be downloaded and listened to anywhere you please. Aurora Quinn-Elmore […]

Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks from technology…). We need more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering” or “save the animals” as discussed in one

Daniel Görtz / Hanzi Freinacht (SE) 14 July | Heimatsaal, Graz Dr. Daniel P. Görtz is a sociologist and social theorist who has taken a playful and experimental stance on his vocation. Building on former welfare structures and high social trust, Scandinavian and some other countries may begin to cultivate a “listening society” in which

The four main reasons why the Alternative in Denmark failed: 1) There were no measures to adequately counter power players playing dirty and hard, 2) it became just another green party, 3) it was diluted by pomos, 4) and its cultural capital left. Below you can read my full analysis and hopefully learn a thing

Can ecology be used for degrowth? Now, appealing as this sounds, it should be pointed out that ecology—as a science—is a considerably harsher one than economics. The word sounds nicer, but a quick comparison of textbooks of the subjects reveal that while, yes, economics focuses significantly on competition, ecology does so to a yet greater

When people are networking, they’re often on the lookout for people to collaborate with—or, more specifically, they’re looking for people to recruit for this brilliant once-in-a-century project of theirs. The only problem: so is everyone else. As a newcomer, you’ll quickly discover that everyone has a project—a project they for mysterious reasons think to be

Whenever everyday people start asking themselves the question… – “Wait a minute, if people of yesteryear did all sorts of things we find barbaric, from keeping slaves to public flogging, what might future civilizations be equally appalled by in our age?” … they almost inevitably come up with some version of: “Well, it’s probably something

“In their first-ever conversation on the topic together, Daniel Görtz and Nora Bateson join me to talk about stage theory. Since Nora’s social media post declaring developmental stage theories “BS” and “colonial as hell,” the value and legitimacy of stage models has been a fervent topic of debate within the liminal web. In this conversation,

I’m delighted to announce that this wonderful woman, Aurora Quinn-Elmore, just finished the production of the audio version of Nordic Ideology. It will be available on audible in a week, inshallah. Aurora has also produced the audio version of The Listening Society which is voiced by no other than Richard Pshock. If you haven’t already