Category: Oameni
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Indra Adnan On New Politics, Soft Power and the Feminine
I am increasingly feeling disconnected from podcasts (and other materials) about subjects I care about (or think I care about!). I mostly feel that ideas are not well grounded and talk about (what strikes me as) disassociated fantasies. The latest wave of disappointment comes from this list from Richard Bartlett (whose work and person I…
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Yoga of Groups
Yoga is a solitary practice, it focuses inwards … my body, my breath, my attention. Maybe that is one of the reasons it appealed to me. When I researched Yoga, I also considered martial arts where there seems to me to be more potential for interaction with at least one other human being. But I…
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Spiraling Together?
Context This post is an echo from a short interaction between Nora Bateson and I on Twitter: Nora: The distraction of fighting for the meager leftovers after the wealthy corporate robbery of life, future, human rights and ecology while trillions in off shore accounts could be used for building a new way of life: #Refugees…
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Elinor Ostrom and the Tragedy of the Commons
I see the tragedy of the commons for manifesting around me, and though I do believe it doesn’t have to manifest, it seems that often it does. This article pays respect to the work of Elinor Ostrom and cites her set of design principles for avoiding the tragedy of the commons: Clearly defined boundaries:…
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Targu Mures City Council
Due to efforts by local political activists there is, on the Targu Mures city council at least one councellor (if not three) who believes in transparency. He live streams the city council meetings with a mobile device and then makes the recording available online. The transcriptions of the meetings are also available in PDF files…
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Yanis Varoufakis in Conversation and Democracy and Europe
(the conversation is with Gerardo Pisarello, Barcelona’s First Deputy Mayor). It’s a good talk … but over-reaching. When Varoufakis starts to lay out his “4 stage plan” I noticed how the energy and clarity and relevancy (applicability) of his ideas faded. It is a good example of ambitious thinking that attempts to reach out too…
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David Graeber and David Wengrow: Ritual Seasonality and the Origins of Inequality
Another gem from David Graeber (and friend) … the core idea is that politics was a seasonal thing … during spring/summer (periods of abundance) society would fragment into small(er) groups of hunter-gatherers who went out on their expiditions and that formed one kind of social-political stage … and during winter they came together into larger…
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Oameni for Israel
A few days ago I read The One State Reality and beyond being a good read something from it stuck with me. It used to be said (though I’ve heard it less and less over the years) that if you took away the politicians, extremists and religious zealots in the area you would end with…