By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Apr 23
What’s The Difference between Utopia, Eutopia, and Protopia?link.medium.com
What’s The Difference between Utopia, Eutopia, and Protopia?link.medium.com
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Aug 22
“Happiness is quite difficult to grasp and is therefore difficult to make the goal and meaning of politics. It is much easier to relate, for example, to the hard currency in which we measure our material resources. There is no one who can point to happiness and say exactly what it is. Yet our need to understand and politically relate precisely to happiness and suffering is increasing. The next level of economics is therefore about transforming the human drives that govern our actions, our economic production, our consumption, and our entire working lives. This is what we call the economics
“Happiness is quite difficult to grasp and is therefore difficult to make the goal and meaning of politics. It is much easier to relate, for example, to the hard currency in which we measure our material resources. There is no one who can point to happiness and say exactly what it is. Yet our need to understand and politically relate
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Aug 22
“If we humans fail to form a good community with each other—how can we expect to guarantee each other’s security and survival in a dignified way? If self-esteem and recognition are too unequally distributed among us—how would we want to enter into communities with one another? And if we lack opportunities for meaningful and creative lives—how can we have enough abundance of will to compassionately engage in democracy and the common good? The listening society thus cultivates our collective intelligence. That collective intelligence is in turn the strongest guarantor of both strong, deep welfare state and a healthy, competitive market
“If we humans fail to form a good community with each other—how can we expect to guarantee each other’s security and survival in a dignified way? If self-esteem and recognition are too unequally distributed among us—how would we want to enter into communities with one another? And if we lack opportunities for meaningful and creative lives—how can we have enough
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Aug 22
“Think of all the endless attempts to read Putin’s mind. His intentions, his calculations, his emotions, his spirituality, you name it. He feeds on our attempts to ‘understand’ him because our inability to do so only proves his sovereignty. For him, to be unpredictable is the point, the end in itself. And if we actually ‘understand’ Putin, it means that we have settled into the same imperialist worldview where people can claim security guarantees on the merit of military musculature. This is why, in ethical terms, a big portion of infamy must go to the so-called Putinverstehers (German portmanteau for
“Think of all the endless attempts to read Putin’s mind. His intentions, his calculations, his emotions, his spirituality, you name it. He feeds on our attempts to ‘understand’ him because our inability to do so only proves his sovereignty. For him, to be unpredictable is the point, the end in itself. And if we actually ‘understand’ Putin, it means that
“We shouldn’t let Putin define Russia’s security interests because the only interest of his regime …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 31 Jul 22
“We shouldn’t let Putin define Russia’s security interests because the only interest of his regime is to stop democracy. “What threatened Putin was not NATO expansion, but the democracy expansion”. We have to understand that long before the talk of ‘national interests’ and ‘spheres of influence’ we’ve already walked the walk of appeasing the people who can’t let go of their power and use the talk of ‘national interest’ as a guarantee of their personal security—which for them means forever staying in power. Putinverstehers perpetuate the idea of Russian innocence because it was left without a choice—but to accept this
“We shouldn’t let Putin define Russia’s security interests because the only interest of his regime is to stop democracy. “What threatened Putin was not NATO expansion, but the democracy expansion”. We have to understand that long before the talk of ‘national interests’ and ‘spheres of influence’ we’ve already walked the walk of appeasing the people who can’t let go of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Jul 22
A hot and tired Emil Ejner Friis of Metamoderna was interviewed by Artem Zen on his podcast show Elevating Consciousness. The conversation didn’t go as planned, but Emil and Artem seem to have had a blast in each others company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDYchmTMl-8Emil Ejner Friis – Metamodern Matters | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #14www.youtube.comEmil Ejner Friis is a theory artist, wordsmith, and author. He has spent the last ten years trying to figure out how to create a listening society, a kinder …
A hot and tired Emil Ejner Friis of Metamoderna was interviewed by Artem Zen on his podcast show Elevating Consciousness. The conversation didn’t go as planned, but Emil and Artem seem to have had a blast in each others company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDYchmTMl-8Emil Ejner Friis – Metamodern Matters | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #14www.youtube.comEmil Ejner Friis is a theory artist, wordsmith, and author.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Jul 22
“After a merger with the criminal underworld, siloviki faced two problems. The old problem was that their Communist Empire couldn’t match the power of the capitalist NATO. The new problem was that they couldn’t own property. But now they saw a way to kill two birds with one stone. The solution was to conduct such a transition of the USSR to market capitalism in which the KGB men would simultaneously preserve power to take on the West and make lots of money for themselves. ‘Unlike the Communists, the new generation of siloviki… declared themselves in favour of the market. But
“After a merger with the criminal underworld, siloviki faced two problems. The old problem was that their Communist Empire couldn’t match the power of the capitalist NATO. The new problem was that they couldn’t own property. But now they saw a way to kill two birds with one stone. The solution was to conduct such a transition of the USSR
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Jul 22
This is Denys Bakirov, 27. He is a lecturer at the University of Kharkiv in Ukraine who currently works as a researcher at Metamoderna. When war broke out on February 24th, his village north of Kharkiv right on the border with Russia was occupied by the Russian Army. Denys was forcefully deported from Ukraine to Russia. There he was interrogated by the FSB. Later, he managed to escape from Russia and now lives in Sweden. Denys has an impressive in-depth understanding of Russian society and has been following the political developments in Russia for many years. He has written a
This is Denys Bakirov, 27. He is a lecturer at the University of Kharkiv in Ukraine who currently works as a researcher at Metamoderna. When war broke out on February 24th, his village north of Kharkiv right on the border with Russia was occupied by the Russian Army. Denys was forcefully deported from Ukraine to Russia. There he was interrogated
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Jul 22
Last week, Daniel Görtz of Metamoderna gave a speech at the Elevate Festival in Austria where he was invited as a keynote speaker. The main questions touched upon were: – How can we create better processes for personal development? – How can politics be adjusted to an increasingly complex world? – What is the unique role of humanity in the ecosystems of nature? You can see the recording by clicking the link below. https://elevate.at/en/mediaarchive/event/e22listeningsociety/Daniel Görtz / Hanzi Freinacht – The Listening Societyelevate.atThe metamodern society of the future is a listening society; a society more sensitive to the inner dimensions of human
Last week, Daniel Görtz of Metamoderna gave a speech at the Elevate Festival in Austria where he was invited as a keynote speaker. The main questions touched upon were: – How can we create better processes for personal development? – How can politics be adjusted to an increasingly complex world? – What is the unique role of humanity in the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Jul 22
“Solarpunk can do what merely intellectual arguments of better governance, of democracy, even of ecological collapse and the natural sciences, cannot: entice the average person, in particular, the established and new middle classes from across the world. If this potential is not tapped into in liberal and democratic societies, wide swathes of global populations will likely begin to look towards the paternalist and authoritarian powers that are already beginning to cast themselves as furnishers of solarpunk spaces and lifestyles (see previous article). As authoritarianism will seem more appealing, democracy will continue to recede across the world and islands of “gated
“Solarpunk can do what merely intellectual arguments of better governance, of democracy, even of ecological collapse and the natural sciences, cannot: entice the average person, in particular, the established and new middle classes from across the world. If this potential is not tapped into in liberal and democratic societies, wide swathes of global populations will likely begin to look towards