Ever wanted to listen to the book "Vocabulary of Degrowth" because you prefer having an audio book over a physical one? Well, we hear you and share your feeling. That's why we started the "Vocabulary of Degrowth Audiobook Podcast". Currently we are recording individual chapters of the book and publish them as a podcast. This way we eventually get to record the entire book. The English version of the book is already 99% complete. Join us to add the other the languages such as German!
To get a taste of it, have a look at the website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you just want to listen to it. If you're seriously interested in joining, send an email to Robert Orzanna.
Should arguments for degrowth be anthropocentric or ecocentric? And what does this mean in practice? There is an interesting discussion going on, starting with two recent court rulings in New Zealand and India about rivers being granted personal rights. We present an article by Ashish Kothari, Mari Margil and Shrishtee Bajpai, first published for The Guardian. Several geographically-distan...
What is capitalism? A kind of state? An institution? Some values? A power structure? Ideology? A Culture? What governs capitalism? Supply and demand Invisible hand Enclosure of land The drive to expand Market mechanism Class schism Racism The moral virtue of productivism. Innovation! Invest! Impress! Progress! Entrepreneurial quest for Technological success in Pursuit ...
Eine Grundüberzeugung des Postwachstumskollegs besteht darin, dass die Überwindung der blindlaufenden Steigerungszwänge moderner, kapitalistischer Gesellschaften einer komplexen, simultanen und mehrdimensionalen Transformation (oder Revolution) bedarf, die ökonomische, politische und kulturelle Veränderungen zugleich impliziert. Die wesentliche Aufgabe des Kollegs besteht darin, so genau wie möglich zu identifizieren, was genau sich ändern muss, um die ‚blindlaufenden‘ ökonomischen, politischen [...]
