The Other Others

We chickened out on this episode back in October 2024, concerned about violent fascist retribution. But today that's just a regular Tuesday, and all kinds of rough beasts are slouching towards Bethlehem. So we're putting it up - an investigative piece with Pospi (non-binary computer-toucher) bringing receipts for what used to be the 'quiet parts' of the alt-centre in regen tech razzle dazzle. The promise was decentralisation, data sovereignty and distributed governance, but beneath the surface, dark money, dark influence and dark deeds were afoot...The receipts: https://drive.proton.me/urls/GFS11V7KH4#Df2oUMvLSzhLBooks and articles we mention-https://www.beceremonial.com/blog/the-ring-theory-can-support-you-during-a-crisis/https://www.uqp.com.au/books/talkin-up-to-the-white-woman-indigenous-women-and-feminism-20th-anniversary-editionhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53260224-white-tears-brown-scarshttps://centreforexperimentalontology.com/2021/03/22/acceleration-and-time-mina-baek/https://centreforexperimentalontology.com/introduction/introduction-to-the-theory-of-pneuminous-accretions-a-phenomenological-chaos-magickal-ontology/

Yarn with Quan Yeomans from the band Regurgitator, on screenwriting, industrialised music and whether truth-telling still works in a post-truth world.

Abdul Semakula working some magic in Uganda, putting the impala back into Kampala, working with limited resources to redefine what real estate means in communities, regenerating land and clan governance structures using Indigenous systems knowledge.

PK and me might have figured out how to make sustainability goals and regenerative finance work without anybody having to be tricked, guilted or scared into paying the bill. Biomass equity could save the world and make capitalism finally deliver on its broken promises - rising tides lifting all boats, infinite growth and free market miracles.Paul Kearney: https://kearneygroup.com.au/our-story/our-team/

Jack and Tyson from the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab yarning up from a lawstick that carries the principles of kodesign as a method of embedding your work in living systems of signals. Link to the digital twin of the lawstick here:https://vimeo.com/885511741?share=copy

Yarn with JMB trying to make sense of the marketplace of nature-based and Indigenous Knowledge-informed alternative economies and finance, in light of the rapidly changing global landscape at this fraught inflection point in history. Some ideas for hope and altering our theories of change in response to our cataclysmic new reality, pondering Serpent Lore and the brilliant 2024 film that most people missed, Blink Twice. watch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcmfonGWY4 Imagi-Nation: https://imagi-nation.io/

The Viking Yarns are back! Rune Rasmussen in our most coherent yarn yet. I must have needed the break. I was tired as hell. Anyway, the phrase that sticks out for me is about new-ageism as 'European self-colonising whiteness'. Some deadly Viking serpent Lore as well.

Gabriella Romero and Nkwi Flores from Amazon Andes First Peoples talk about the embassy we're making with eucalypts in diaspora, Indigenous borderwork, kinmaking and migration. And the poxy US elections.

Apologies for so long between episodes. All is explained in this yarn with Kabir Kadre (wounded mystic) and Eric Hekler (former techno-utopian), as we explore the cataclysmic shifting of overton windows, faith and empiricism during the terrifying inflection point of a US election that is destabilizing systems globally.

A wanjau (collective sensemaking yarn) with JMB, Tyson and Josh from IKSLab, tying together 3 years of work in regenerative finance design. How can bioregional, relational economies and currencies be established without being backed by potential extractive activity on the land, or real estate as capital, or the ponzi scheme vacuums of crypto? How can these commons be governed and enjoyed collectively? How can units of value be created to support economies of care and regen knowledge production? What value propositions can work here, and what mechanisms of measurement could be responsive to authentic signals from the land? And how can Indigenous knowledge be embedded safety, with equity kept by communities providing this expertise?

Gumbaynggirr carver Pete McCurley is back to tell a tale of surveillance and sabotage during cultural fire management events, and the way wrong story about 'nature' and 'the wild' is preventing our communities from caring for the land. We talk about our shared inquiry working with invasive species: plant, animal and human to come into good relation and balance with biocultural systems. Turns out you can carve a decent coolamon out of radiata pine...

Walking country, reading the land and the flows and feeling what these sentient systems want to create with us, and it's all fabulous, but we're not listening to women the same way, and the land won't speak to us fully until we get that right.

Rishikes Siva takes biomimicry to the next level with Lunar Punk rhizomatic riffs, and we weave through arboretal IK at the margins of regenerative sexiness, while the brains of Elders are uploaded to the clouds and we wait to see what that rain will look like (while a tiny part of me dies inside). If more than half of that didn't make sense to you, the yarn won't either! Nerds!

Wanted to yarn with Roma, Scots, Native American, Aboriginal, queer, neuro-divergent, unhoused and trans folks about fluid border work facilitating norms of access, and about finding identity in ancestral paths rather than homelands, since global populations are becoming increasingly itinerant. But that panel would be complicated and boring, as most panels and webinars are, so we got all those people in the body of one pluriversal non-binary mongrel sibling who embodies deep time embassy for real-time contexts, Oliver Grove.

Have spears. Will travel.

Emily McAvan queers up our ongoing narratives of embassy and quarantine as kin making rather than exclusion, as we dig deep into the foundational spiritual narratives of Purity, Toxicity, Pollution and Contagion that dominate all policy and practice around the most explosive issues of our time - immigration, medicine and wellness, environmental issues, free speech and media, marriage equality, and those pesky trans kids who think they have a right to piss and play sport.

They say leap and the net appears, but Jack Manning Bancroft at the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab is riffing on some emergent para-financial systems that offer something better to splash into, a soft landing for everyone. It's so crazy it just might work. While there may be no Apple sweat-shop safety nets here, we can all return to identities and investments grounded in place and kin, if we really want to.

Thought experiment: what would it take to naturalise money in the biosphere, in the same way that invasive plants and animals can come into harmony with ecosystems over time and with good custodianship of land? Indigenous folks and allies of The Indigenous Commons, from around the globe: Parul Punjabi Jagdish, Nawi Flores, Abdul Semakula, Suzanna Bowles, Lydia Campbell, Paul Kearney.

Love eggs to you my siblings

Sorry siblings, it's been a while, but I been falling in love again, with my woman. Dougald Hine from the Dark Mountain on how love and ritual are not soft skills in the business of growing seeds of right story from the ruins of empire.