29.November-5.February, 2020 [A prescript about photography: I felt very uncomfortable taking photos of people, as if zooifying their daily lives, and I was also uncertain about taking photos of spiritual acts and objects. Also … many of my photos were taken from the back of a motorcycle. My fastest camera being far slower than my perception, I often wished to have the implants of Greg Egan’s journalists of the future. To see the images larger, […read the rest]
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1. what is economics.
TOOLS
HISTORY
thingsto track
EDGE
how do we find these? history, institutions, ideology
Outline of the lecture
Free Trade Agreements (TTIP, TTP, ALCA, NAFTA, WTO…)
Debt and austerity
Colonialism
Economics Toolbox: growth, commodification, privatization
So the topic of this session is innovation and social change in the food system. I’m going to start with some examples of innovation. There are too many to cover in such a short time, so I only choose some examples. Then I’ll share some conceptual tools for thinking about how to create powerful social change. The capital letters indicate when to move forward in the prezi. Innovations FMKT Farmers markets are certainly not an […read the rest]
Lecture to the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 5 February 2015.
Historical evidence insists that oppression on its own does not produce social movement reaction. In places with little culture of resistance, there will be little social movement reaction to social problems, or occasional outbursts may not be sustained. San Francisco has had, regularly and recently over the last decades, a series of effective and sustained street manifestations, so there are people, organizations, networks, systems, etc. to make the next ones bigger and more robust.
So what is the cosmology of food sovereignty? Food is a community, not a commodity… But how do we turn this idea into culture? Alberto Melucci explains how it is that we create culture… through creating new spaces, identities, meanings, identities, commitments….
Lecture to “Plants and the Environment” course, University of Sydney, 7 October 2014.
