This meander was stimulated by a recent repudiation by Zizek of the possible role of small communities in any future human flourishing. In this context, I revisit E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful (1973). I discuss some of the core ideas from that seminal work. In particular, I focus on the treatement of raw materials as [inexhaustible] income and the treatement of the environment as a free dump by capitalism and the economic theories that act as its ideological justification. I touch upon intermediate technology, the role of 'spirituality' in the good life, the way in which economic theories and political practice often treat people as numbers on a spreadsheet, the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike and the persistence of alienation in nationalised industries. I do this by discerning Zizek's 'inner Schumacher' and Schumacher's 'inner Zizek' and recounting instances of their expression. In both cases these inner others are mostly repressed, but vigorous enough to surface now and then in brilliant insight. [Free. 47 minutes.]
DESIGNING SOCIETY AND EVALUATION
LAOTZU 12
REMARKS ON US/UK/FRANCE MISSILE STRIKES ON SYRIA [14TH APRIL 18]
ON GUILT
ON BREATH
NUMBERS ONE: SEDUCTIONS OF THE ALGORITHM
VIKING INTENSITY
EVERYDAY MIND
LAO TZU 11
NIETZSCHE'S METAPHORS OF WAR AND PLAY
POSTMODERNISM: A FEW REMARKS
LAO TZU 10
ON TABOOS
THE USES AND ABUSES OF THE CONCEPT OF NATURE
MUSIC AND THE BELOVED
ON INVENTION: THE CASE OF DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY
LAO TZU: PART NINE
ON BOUNDARIES
LANGUAGE AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
WITTGENSTEIN 101
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