This whole thread (and many of the comments) is amazing — well worth a read.

I share Jason’s vision of a rough road to localized, bioregional agrarian-based communities, although I think urban centres will have the tech & density advantage so will fare much better than suggested

https://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1549430234591666178

My own focus now is working with rural folks to transition away from fossil fuel dependence, and towards more local regenerative and resilient practices and social relations via #agroecology — the practical alignment of food production and land stewardship.

Strategic withdrawal.

This paper “argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture.” 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… “In this respect, [#agroecology] has a strategically important potential for allowing farmers to regain control over the labour process.”

“#Permaculture should be viewed as a dynamic social movement that can provide a vision for radical transformation of human societies… As a system based on cooperation and solidarity among humans and non-human nature, permaculture offers a radical reimagination of the possible.” Of course, there are many things to add from a critical and nuance-seeking perspective— that would start with the truthiness of stating how #permaculture is a historical intellectual artifact and practice with its own biases and blind spots built in. Just like any design practice

“Global evidence of constraints and limits to human #adaptation” — by Thomas, A., et al. readcube.com/articles/10.10… “We conduct a systematic review of 1,682 academic studies on human adaptation responses to identify patterns in constraints and limits to adaptation for different regions, sectors, hazards, adaptation response types, and actors.”

Here’s my thesis: so many established, secure and privileged folks have an aversion to “radical” politics and discourse, where civil obedience is challenged or disagreement and conflict is intense, because *we* outsource genuine contestation to the military.

Care to discuss? Which a to say, the desire and normative demand to not be adversarial, or to maintain civility and polite discourse, even with things that determine other people’s lives and dignity, is afforded by having cops and military use force to maintain established relations of power.

Some seriously wise words here for the eco-conscious community. Promote joy, not despair. #FierceLove

https://twitter.com/IntoTheBlues/status/1413861536117010438

My personal experience and academic research, both, confirms what Christina is saying. Most people just want to live meaningful lives filled w abundance (of love, fun, food & creativity). It’s our ideologies that block us from seeing the myriad of alternative ways to get this.

I reject the premise that the current global mess we are all in is based solely on “the stories we tell.” These systems (in both their pathological and regenerative forms) are fundamentally relational. This means also material & energetic. Relations are never solely about ideas. Relations of economic production. Relations of social reproduction. There are systemic and structural relations between bodies, plants, microbes, polities, climate, tools, animals, militaries, institutions, rivers, cops, etc., that generate the very conditions of life.

“At its core, #bioregionalism aims to address the inequitable distribution of resources and the disproportionate strain that current economic models places on natural environments and local people.”
earth.org/bioregionalism/ “American environmental writer Peter Berg popularised the ideology, emphasising a social structure where community ties were strengthened, awareness of natural resources enhanced and dedication to environmental conservation imprinted upon the public.”

In a degrading biosphere, community viability while depend on how well we can adapt to regional affordances and flows. Watersheds, healthy soil, forests, waste management - the matrix of possibility for reproducing community. #patchwork

https://twitter.com/DrDCWahl/status/1392789928845664257

It begins with relocalization: source everything locally (consume less), become a food producer, or work with one to create relationships; hire and value tradespersons, and the community of practitioners that keep our lives functioning; and cultivate mutual aid. Weave community.

"The back loop is the time of the ‘Long Now,’ when each of us must become aware that he or she [or they] is a participant." (C. S. Holling, 2004, p. 5) "[T]o inhabit the back loop can mean to belong to it, to have one’s own place within it, to be familiar, comfortable, & involved with it, rather than fighting against or living in fear of it. A habitual, everyday act of free creation & building: a peace within shifting terrain."

"What we have to say matters less than what we have learned in thinking with the Indigenous people and their knowledge forms." ppesydney.net/how-to-write-a… "For non-Indigenous scholars, there is a constant need to be alert to the possibilities of reproducing colonial power structures and epistemic frameworks while engaged in knowledge production."

I would really love to hear from people who are doing regenerative agriculture and/or permaculture about how they feel/think about this critique: culturalsurvival.org/news/whitewash… In particular, I’d love to know what @cognazor and @RizomaSchool think about the idea that perm and regen ag is “whitewashing” and cultural theft.

For me, I agree wholeheartedly with embracing relational and decolonized ways of being and doing, but is it really this simple?

Sensation that activates perception is the necessary condition for synthetic judgement, but not visa versa. Judgment can fail when perception is distorted, but not visa versa (as in the case of brain injury). Therefore sapience supervenes on sentience. Take that #Kant. To have the power of reason means to be able to revise
one’s beliefs in light of reasons, or in other words, to be able to bring one’s beliefs under active existential control. But the grounding relations characteristic of perception lack this quality.

"Humanism is distinguished by the implicitly affirmative attitude of construction. Insofar as the kitsch Marxism resignation implies an abandonment of the project of humanism and a collapse into regressive passivity... ..., we can say that kitsch Marxism’s refusal to both resign and to construct is tantamount to a position that is neither passive nor humanist." @NegarestaniReza