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Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S6E6: What Time Is LOVE?After a long summer of counselling to recover from the sight of Sean Connery’s red mankini, Ed and Dougald are reunited to talk about green populism, why the world isn’t a giant Amazon store, hospicing dance music and the political language of love. (Or was that the love language of politics?)ShownotesWhat have we been up to?Ed’s been thinking about “bystander leadership”: how interventions by bystanders successfully change the course of events.Back in May, he went Singing With Nightingales with the folk singer Sam Lee and friend...
2025-10-141h 07
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S6E5: Against The VortexIn our first episode of 2025, we get inspired by Anthony Galluzzo’s Against the Vortex to watch the cult 1974 movie Zardoz, featuring Sean Connery in what appears to be a prototype for the mankini. In Galluzzo’s book, Zardoz features as a surprisingly prescient story for thinking about techno-utopias (or dystopias), degrowth and deceleration in the 21st century, as well as bringing into view an under-recognised current of “critical Aquarianism” in 1970s counterculture, distinct from both the self-centred therapeutic turn (see Adam Curtis’s Century of the Self) and the “hippie modernist cults of technology” (touched on when we discussed ‘Spa...
2025-04-301h 00
THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTDougald Hine | At Work in the RuinsI posted this episode two years ago on this day.I’m thinking it might have more relevance and be more helpful today to more folks around here.Context is king and all that.Maybe as more folks begin to bear witness to this old world imploding, to this civilisational story ending, perhaps we are becoming ready to figure out what work we are being called to do ‘in the ruins’ as Dougald Hine might say.I would suggest that there is much wisdom to be found in listening to Dougald and he...
2025-03-031h 23
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensReimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine(Conversation recorded on November 12th, 2024) In today's modern era, the overwhelming flood of information that constantly flows our way can leave us feeling disoriented, lost, and powerless. Even science – our most trusted source of truth – can be taken out of context to fuel division and distort the reality around us. In the midst of this confusion, how can we learn to ground ourselves and find guideposts that can direct our lives and work? Today, Nate is joined by storyteller and social thinker, Dougald Hine, to explore the importance of narratives in shaping our understa...
2025-02-121h 36The Great Simplification with Nate HagensReimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine(Conversation recorded on November 12th, 2024) In today's modern era, the overwhelming flood of information that constantly flows our way can leave us feeling disoriented, lost, and powerless. Even science – our most trusted source of truth – can be taken out of context to fuel division and distort the reality around us. In the midst of this confusion, how can we learn to ground ourselves and find guideposts that can direct our lives and work? Today, Nate is joined by storyteller and social thinker, Dougald Hine, to explore the importance of narratives in shaping our understa...
2025-02-121h 36
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyEpisode 13: Everything Sucks Because No One Knows What They Are DoingFor 50 years, governments have been doing exactly what conservatives wantThe reason the economy and the world are so incredibly messed up, and that people are so angry, and divided and desperate, and that nothing seems to change no matter who gets elected is not because governments haven’t listened to neoclassical rules, it’s because they have.The idea that the problem with the economy is the government’s fault for spending too much ignores the fact that for 50 f*****g years, politicians havebeen doing exactly what businesses, and conservative voters have been asking them t...
2024-12-281h 09
Lost Prophets#9. Dougald Hine on Work in the RuinsWe first encountered Dougald Hine about a year ago through the wide mycelium-like network of Ivan Illich fans—and we were glad we did. His new book was just out and we heard he was doing a book tour of the U.S. quite a few years after his first visit here. Our meetup in D.C. for Dougald a few weeks ago was a rich and delightful occasion — a time when we learned what T.S. Eliot might have meant when he wrote: “wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”One of the U...
2024-12-1859 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyIf Modern Monetary Theory is wrong, why is it so much better at predicting the economy - and economic disaster?Proponents of Modern Monetary Theory have predicted many of the crises that neoclassical economists completely whiffed on, because they actually measure and include data in their model that orthodox economics does not.What is even more egregious, however, are the superficial criticisms of MMT deployed to criticize it, which amount to not understanding it, because they can’t see how it fits in with their own view. That, however, is the point. It doesn’t “fit in” with their view, it replaces it with a different one.Links:Original article: https://open.sub...
2024-12-1355 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyFar-right extremism is rising because Canada, the U.S., UK & Europe are making the same mistakes as Social Democrats in Germany after 1929There is plenty of hand-wringing, and not much else, about the rise of far-right extremism in “the West”. Of course, there have always been such elements, but there is genuine and bitter hatred as societies splinter into tribal factions, some of them blatantantly lawless violent criminals. Authorities like police are often unable to cope with these disturbances, because from a practical point of view, they are not equipped to. Governments and police forces in Canada are not prepared for massive surges in protestors who are also breaking the law.While the factions blame each other, or government, the...
2024-12-071h 27
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S6E3: #DECELERATEIn this episode, we chew on a question that’s been on Dougald’s mind since a recent event in London, where Brian Eno wondered what is the difference between an analysis which says we cannot save or make sustainable the trajectories of industrial modernity and technological progress, and an accelerationist position which says we need to bring about collapse in order to release the possibilities to be found in the ruins? What would a “decelerationist” politics look like?Shownotes* Derek Gow, Birds, Beasts and Bedlam * Andy Hamilton, New Wild Order * James Ka...
2024-11-1955 min
DAILY SOUL BYTES SHOWHigh Peak Performance - Heart Driven Success with Pauline DougaldPauline Dougald, Peak Performance Coach, Entrepreneur, Founder, Art Diversion Creative talks about making better decisions by unlocking authentic creative expression:
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2024-11-1238 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S6E2: Remember, Remember!Remember, remember, the 5th of November,Gunpowder, treason and plot.I see no reasonWhy gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot.This episode starts with the traditional nursery rhyme commemorating the events of 5 November, 1605, when Catholic plotters attempted to blow up the British parliament.While we’re on the theme of memory and maps, a reminder that Dougald’s new online series, Pockets, Patterns & Practices, starts this week, with the question, “What kind of maps do we need now?”And here’s a line from friend-of-the-show Elizabeth Oldfield that came in after we recorded, but resonates...
2024-11-0557 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S6E1: When the S**t Hits the Roomba“Maybe what we’re looking for is fewer robot vacuum cleaners and more compost toilets.”We stumble into a new series of The Great Humbling with an episode that revolves around s**t and technology. This is also our first video episode, so you can watch our beardy faces on Substack or YouTube.Shownotes* Ed’s been reading The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, alongside How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm.* Also Andrei Kirkov’s Death and the Penguin.* Dougald talks about Em Strang’s n...
2024-10-2351 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyVIDEO: The Truth of Residential Schools is Still Being DeniedI’ve done a video about Residential Schools and Residential School denialism, because it's becoming a bigger issue.Angus Reid, who's a pollster, ended up leaving Twitter, talking about churches being burned and about claims around Residential schools.And it's really important because the sad - the really tragic part about this is that we're not actually fighting about history. The history is actually not in question.In, 1907 Dr. Peter Bryce, Canada’s First Chief Medical Officer issued a report detailed the fact that First Nations students at Residential schools were dying in appa...
2024-10-1359 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Gifts in the Ruins with Dr Ashley ColbyIn this episode, my guest is Dr Ashley Colby for a joint episode with her Doomer Optimism podcast. Ashley is hosting a weekend retreat around my work in Chicago as part of next month’s North American tour.* Read more & register for the Chicago Retreat: https://bit.ly/dougald-retreat* The rest of the American tour: https://dougald.nu/america/Thanks for reading Homeward Bound! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.We talk about how long it is since I last visited the US. Back th...
2024-08-211h 02
Community ResilienceGrounded Hope: Dougald Hine on Resilience and Navigating a Changed WorldDive into the latest episode of Community Resilience with special guest Dougald Hine!
Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME ‘a gathering place and a learning community for those who are drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture. He has collaborated with scientists, artists and activists, serving as a leader of artistic development at (Rick-stee-art-en) Riksteatern (Sweden’s national theatre) and as an associate of the Centre for Environment and...
2024-08-1457 min
The ReMembering and ReEnchanting PodcastEpisode 36 - Charisma and Education amidst broken stories: A conversation with Dougald HineAuthor, social entrepreneur and the co-founder of a School Called HOME and The Dark Mountain Project - and a long time friend - Dougald Hine sits down with Sara Jolena Wolcott to talk about (adult) education, which leads to so many other things, because education is connected to so many things.1:27 - Introduction to Dougald Hine5:04 - When you know society has run to the end of its own story.... A question from a friend and student16:19 - On education and carrying a message21:38 - Education, Religion, and learning from what comes before us
2024-05-211h 26
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)Taking Beauty Seriously with Caroline RossAs the fifth season of The Great Humbling came to an end, we recognised that what we’ve been doing is letting you listen in on a conversation that we would want to have anyway – and this inspired us to expand the podcast, to bring you overheard conversations with other friends, co-conspirators and people who get us thinking.We’re calling this Homeward Bound, a title that started off as the name of the first online series that Dougald Hine taught with a school called HOME in 2020. For a few series now, we’ve used homewardbound.org as the h...
2024-05-2146 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyIt’s the Private Economy that’s Broken, not the Federal GovernmentRead the original post here: https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/publish/post/143346997 Canada has a housing crisis - a private market crises. Builders, lenders, investors. We have a debt crisis attached to the housing crisis. But it’s all private sector. So why is the Federal Government being asked to intervene? Because the private market is broken. Canada also has a productivity problem - a private sector problem, often solved by investing in new capital machinery that makes employees more productive, with higher wages and greater output. That hasn’t happened, because private banks loane...
2024-04-2548 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E8: 'State of the Humbling'The end of this fifth series of The Great Humbling finds us looking back over the loose ends from earlier episodes, exploring the wider field of “Humility Studies” and asking who exactly we think we’re talking to, anyway?We start with Ed reporting back from The Fête of Britain, the inaugural festival of the Hard Art collective, which took place in Manchester last week, where he found himself hosting a gameshow whose panellists included Clare Farrell, Lee Jasper and the folk singer Jennifer Reid, who specialises in singing broadside ballads to reconnect audiences with the working...
2024-02-2955 min
The Embodiment Coaching PodcastThe End of A World - With Dougald HineWriter and speaker Dougald joins me to talk journalism, environmentalism, endings, being at home in the ruins, how things are getting worse, why we're crazy, what's next, has environmentalism been hijacked, multiculturalism, unintentional communities, body denial and death denial and the pandemic. A juicy far ranging one. More information about Dougald Hine's work - https://dougald.nu/ Want to become a certified embodiment coach? More details about CEC - https://embodimentunlimited.com/cec/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=cec Find Mark Walsh on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/warkmalsh/ ...
2024-02-221h 01
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E7: 'Founders Confessions'In our latest episode, Ed and Dougald compare notes on the experience of being founders – or co-founders – of organisations. What did we learn along the way? And what do humble forms of leadership look like?We were recording on Shrove Tuesday, so the episode kicks off with a discussion of seasonal customs, including the Swedish semla…On a recent Danish tour, Dougald returned to teach at the Kaospilots school, reconnecting with one of the inspirations that set him on the path of kickstarting projects and organisations in his twenties. The last day of that tour was al...
2024-02-1658 min
Experience.ComputerDougald HineJay Springett leads writer and social thinker Dougald Hine through a series of imaginative exercises.Then they discuss:* How the internet came in like a tide* The importance of attention and presence* The significance of writing by hand and its impact on self-expression and communication* The power of conversation and its ability to shape and influence ideas and moreExperience.Computer is a slow radio show about high tech. Exploring aphantasia, creativity, and the imagination.QUOTES“And then you said symbolism and suddenly my...
2024-02-121h 23
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E6: 'The Low Agreements'This is the episode where we finally left Skype, which we’ve for some reason been using to record these conversations for four and a half series. Switching off the lights as we go, Ed wonders about other examples of old systems and technologies that are still in use, such as Windows Submarine.Dougald reports back on his trip to Gothenburg – and makes an appeal for help in locating a copy of Helen Cresswell’s Bagthorpes Battered, the tenth and final instalment in her saga about the terrible (and hilarious) Bagthorpe family. If you have a copy gatheri...
2024-02-0253 min
Unshod with D. Firth GriffithWhy Climate Change Doesn't Need (more) Science w/ Dougald HineIn this conversation, Dugald Hine of the Dark Mountain Project and A School Called HOME and the author of the book, At Work In The Ruins, discusses the limitations of science in addressing climate change and the need to question and reevaluate our understanding of the issue. He emphasizes the importance of embracing vernacular knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as living in hope and embracing the home, the community. Hine also explores the need for a new narrative that goes beyond the singularization of knowledge and the supremacy of science. He discusses the concept of...
2024-01-261h 00
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E4: 'The Forever Project'Our final episode of 2023 finds Dougald already in his Christmas jumper, as the tiredness of a busy year catches up with the pair of us. Ed opens a window on Sophie Howarth’s Lighting the Dark: An Advent Calendar. We share the Benjamin Zephaniah poems that have been going round in our heads, since the news of his death was announced, ‘To Do Wid Me’ and ‘Rong Radio Station’ and ‘Luv Song’. Ed’s been reading a doorstop of a novel, The Deluge by Stephen Markley. Dougald has been revisiting the work of Pam Warh...
2023-12-1542 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyPrices aren't just about supply and demand. They're about control over supply and demandThings don’t have prices, people do. When we buy something : we are paying people to release it to us.It's easy enough to chalk up problems to and prices to "supply and demand" - when the actual interaction between buyer and seller has one more, really important dimension: control. Prices are affected by how much control over supply, and control over demand that each side has. To show the difference - we look at the real-world famous case of the economy of a Prisoner of War Camp. There, prices moved up and down smoothly - because no...
2023-11-3025 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E3: 'We Used to Have Fun'We take a different route into our conversation this time around, in what turns out to be the first in a two-parter woven around John Higgs’s book, The KLF: Chaos, Magic & the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds, which Ed has been reading. It’s the kind of book that detonates in the mind, sparking a million connections. First, though, we start out talking about humbling moments, great and small, prompted by Dougald’s experience of stumbling upon a conversation between two listeners who had very different responses to our previous episode. The KLF conver...
2023-11-3052 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E2: 'Words in Wartime'We recorded this episode on Dougald’s birthday – and Ed starts with the image of him wearing Anna’s family’s Coyote coat, triggering unsettling flashbacks to the QAnon shaman, who is apparently now running for Congress. Welcome to the dark weirdness of 2023. Ed quotes from Paul Mason’s ‘Gaza: Time for Restraint’, a story brought to our attention by listener Richard Brophy, about a conversation between George Orwell and Stephen Spender during the Second World War. Before we head further into the core themes of this episode, Ed talks about a recent visit to the Time & Tide...
2023-11-1759 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyTruth, lies, and understanding tools of mass deceptionLarry Wilmore is a complete genius. I like him for lots of reasons - he is a truly brilliant and hilarious award-winning writer, producer, comedianHe has some of the most incredible insights you have ever heard into communication, and politics.On Larry’s podcast - Black on the Air - from January 16, 2021 - just ten days after the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, he helped explain communications and even political propaganda in a way that was incredibly powerful and perceptive, based on insights derived from the deliberate deception that is crafted as part of...
2023-11-0930 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyBetter Understanding Modern Monetary Theory Get full access to Dougald Lamont’s Substack at dougaldlamont.substack.com/subscribe
2023-11-0832 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyHow the Cure for Scurvy was Lost, then FoundSome years ago, I stumbled across a post by a man named Maciej Ceglowski, where he told the story of how the world forgot the cure to a deadly disease.Ceglowski was re-reading The Worst Journey in the World, the account of Robert Falcon Scott’s failed 1911 expedition to the South Pole. You can read Ceglowski's excellent post here: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htmLearning the right lessons has always been the challenge of all human knowledge, and especially of scientific endeavour. We can defy reason, and gravity, but only for so long. As...
2023-11-0711 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S5E1: 'The Ruined Church'Welcome back to Season 5 of The Great Humbling! Here are some show notes... The Regrowing a Living Culture series at a school called HOME starts on 7 & 8 November. Ed has been reading Dougie Strang’s book, The Bone Cave. Dougald mentions the cluster of authors who were part of the first decade of Dark Mountain who are stepping out with books of their own, finding their voice and getting the attention they deserve. This includes Dougie, also his wife Em Strang’s first novel Quinn, Nick Hunt’s first novel Red Smoking Mirror, Caroline Ross’s...
2023-11-0154 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyThe History of Hyperinflation in Germany after WWI is Dangerously Wrong. Here's Why That Matters.The hyperinflation in Germany is one of the best known such episodes in history. To give an indication of the level of inflation, a loaf of bread that cost 160 marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 (200 billion) marks a year later.Many economists, historians and news articles will seek to explain the dangers of hyperinflation by citing the German government, but the history is almost entirely wrong. The Nazis did not come to power until more than half a decade after the hyperinflation had come to an end. The explosion in money-printing in Germany in 1922 and 1923...
2023-10-3112 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyThe Only Time Inequality Ever Got Better“The middle-class society I grew up in didn’t evolve gradually or automatically. It was created, in a remarkably short period of time, by FDR and the New Deal. As the chart shows, income inequality declined drastically from the late 1930s to the mid 1940s, with the rich losing ground while working Americans saw unprecedented gains. Economic historians call what happened the Great Compression, and it’s a seminal episode in American history.”How it happened is even more remarkable - during a period of scarcity, inflation, recycling, rationing, regulation and high government spending had the result of marki...
2023-10-2519 min
Rune SoupChristianity's Surprising Resurgence - An Ivan Illich Perspective | Dougald HineAuthor, activist and educator, Dougald Hine returns to the show this week for a discussion that is simultaneously timely and timeless. If you've been following along on the blog, you'll know that I have been wrestling with how to say things, with whom and to what end, given how the world is going. One of the topics I had been meaning to record on for months now was the resurgence of Christianity: whether it is surprising or not, whether it is automatically reactionary, whether it is a sign of things improving or devolving. And I...
2023-10-241h 31
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyThe Single Most Important Thing We Can do to Address Canada’s Economic ChallengesWelcome to our first podcast! Sorry about any issues with audio quality. This is the audio version of our first printed article - The Single Most Important Thing We Can do to Address Canada’s Economic Challenges, in podcast format for your convenience. While some economic indicators in Canada are ripping higher, the struggles Canadians are facing are undeniable, and the current policies of the Bank of Canada massively adding stress to Canadian businesses and families alike, in the name of fighting inflation.The Bank of Canada is punishing Canadian borrowers who are being crushed by inflation th...
2023-10-2026 minThe Great Simplification with Nate HagensFood & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel | Reality Roundtable #05On this Reality Roundtable, philosopher and writer Dougald Hine, social scientist and farmer Chris Smaje, and ecologist and farmer Pella Thiel join Nate to discuss the future of food and community. Our disconnected relationship to agriculture and our neighbors have been shaped by a modern industrial society fueled by surplus hydrocarbon energy. What will these relationships look like in a lower energy future, where we need to once again work with each other and the land, rather than in isolation. Can we learn from history to celebrate with each other in times of abundance and find strength in community...
2023-10-151h 28The Great Simplification with Nate HagensFood & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel | Reality Roundtable #05On this Reality Roundtable, philosopher and writer Dougald Hine, social scientist and farmer Chris Smaje, and ecologist and farmer Pella Thiel join Nate to discuss the future of food and community. Our disconnected relationship to agriculture and our neighbors have been shaped by a modern industrial society fueled by surplus hydrocarbon energy. What will these relationships look like in a lower energy future, where we need to once again work with each other and the land, rather than in isolation. Can we learn from history to celebrate with each other in times of abundance and find strength in community...
2023-10-151h 28
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling: Live at Norwich Arts CentreIn February this year, we took The Great Humbling into a new format, a live conversation on stage at Norwich Arts Centre as part of the UK tour that Dougald made to launch his book, At Work in the Ruins. It's taken us rather a long time to get the recording edited, but here it is at last. For this live show, Ed and Dougald were joined by two special guests. Charlotte Du Cann is a writer, editor, teacher and lover of all things rooted in Earth and sky. She works as co-director of the...
2023-09-281h 15
Niigaan and the Lone RangerThe man who would be kingmaker? A chat with Liberal Leader Dougald LamontNiigaan and Dan return from summer hiatus by putting Grit leader Dougald Lamont on the hot seat. The fellas talk to Dougald about his party's chances in the 2023 election and whether the Liberals could hold the balance of power in a minority legislature. And a tribute to Bob Barker.
2023-09-081h 10
Elephant Journal: Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis169. Waylon Lewis & author Dougald Hine talk about everyone's Favorite subject in the Entire World.This week, Waylon Lewis is with author Dougald Hine of At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics, and All the Other Emergencies, as they talk about climate change and how the hell to think and act about it. Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer, speaker and the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. "I have spent my adult life talking to people about climate change, and I've never been the guy whose job it is to stand up there with t...
2023-08-3122 min
The SacredDougald Hine on Climate Change and How to Respond to a Bleak Looking FutureDougald Hine is a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. He is most recently the author of the book 'At Work in the Ruins'.
Dougald spoke about his childhood growing up in the United Reformed Church, his decision to leave the BBC, and how to respond to the 'end of the world'.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2023/05/31/dougald-hine-on-climate-change-and-how-to-respond-to-a-bleak-looking-future
Buy a copy of his book 'At Work in the Ruins' here: https://www.amazon.co...
2023-05-311h 14
Doomer OptimismDO 139 - Adam Greenfield w/ Dougald Hine and AshleyAshley and Dougald co-host Adam Greenfield to talk about his idea of LifeHouses as featured here https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/from-churches-to-lifehouses.
Previously a rock critic, a bike messenger, a free-clinic medic and a sergeant in the US Army, Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology, design and politics with everyday life. Before founding his own practice, Urbanscale, in 2010, he worked as lead information architect for Razorfish in Tokyo and head of design direction for service and user interface design at Nokia...
2023-05-041h 21
Peripheral ThinkingAt Work in the Ruins - with Dougald HineThis is a beautiful conversation about endings, among other things.Dougald is / was a long term climate campaigner - working alongside scientists, often picking up the story where their work ends. He joins Ben to talk about his new book, the beautifully titled ‘At Work In The Ruins’.Picking a path through the various crises of our times, the book is equal part invitation and provocation; it is not a source book of solutions to the climate emergency and beyond. Quite the opposite.It’s an invitation to think and feel and respond into o...
2023-05-011h 24Rune SoupAt Work In The Ruins | Dougald HineAuthor and (post)activist Dougald Hine joins us this week for a powerful discussion about our moment and what -if anything- we should 'do' with and about it. The springboard for our chat is Dougald's recently-released book, At Work in the Ruins. We unpack the title -what do we mean by 'work'- as well as what we mean by 'ruins'. Physical? Cultural? Social? We talk about what it means to hospice modernity and we unpack why one of the founders of the Dark Mountain project is no longer talking about climate change. Really g...
2023-04-271h 21
We Are Already FreeFinding hope at the end of the world | A life-changing conversation with Dougald Hine, author of At Work In The RuinsHave you noticed that the world as we know it is ending? And, no matter how much we think we can escape to some cozy little place away from all the chaos, the reality is there is no escaping this time of endings, death, and letting go. If this freaks you out, overwhelms you, or leaves you wondering, “well, what the hell do I do at the end of the world?”, then this episode offers a deep, empathetic, and enlightening look at how we can be At Work In the Ruins of what was.Today’s guest, Dougal...
2023-04-131h 08Doomer OptimismDO 128 - At Work in the Ruins with Dougald Hine, Ashley Colby, and Chris SmajeChris and Ashley speak with Dougald about his new book At Work in the Ruins and where it intersects with both the Small Farm Future and Doomer Optimism.
Dougald Hine is a social thinker, writer, speaker and the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. His latest book is At Work in the Ruins (2023) and he publishes new essays on his Substack, Writing Home. https://linktr.ee/atworkintheruins
His substack can be found at: https://dougald.substack.com/
Chris Smaje has coworked a small farm in Somerset, southwest England...
2023-03-231h 33
THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTEpisode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the RuinsEpisode 64 with Dougald Hine.
Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.
Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.
And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.
In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times - times of endings.
‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for this moment for those who know int...
2023-03-031h 23THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTEpisode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the RuinsEpisode 64 with Dougald Hine.
Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.
Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.
And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.
In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times - times of endings.
‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for this moment for those who know int...
2023-03-031h 23
THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTEpisode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the RuinsEpisode 64 with Dougald Hine.Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times - times of endings.‘At Work in the...
2023-03-031h 23THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTTeaser - Episode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the RuinsTeaser of Episode 64 is here
In this episode Dan is in conversation with Dougald Hine.
Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.
Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.
And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.
In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times.
Dan says -
“At Work in the Ruins...
2023-03-0202 minTHE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTTeaser - Episode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the RuinsTeaser of Episode 64 is here
In this episode Dan is in conversation with Dougald Hine.
Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.
Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.
Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.
And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.
In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times.
Dan says -
“At Work in the Ruins...
2023-03-0202 min
THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTTeaser - Episode 64 - Dougald Hine - At Work in the RuinsTeaser of Episode 64 is hereIn this episode Dan is in conversation with Dougald Hine.Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unra...
2023-03-0202 min
The End of TourismS3 #1 | On Finding Home in the Ruins | Dougald Hine (A School Called HOME)On this, the first episode of Season 3: Invocations, my guest is Dougald Hine, a social thinker, writer and speaker. After an early career as a BBC journalist, he co-founded organisations including the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. He has collaborated with scientists, artists and activists, serving as a leader of artistic development at Riksteatern (Sweden’s national theatre) and as an associate of the Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University. His latest book is At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Em...
2023-02-1358 min
Stream Top-Rated Audiobooks in High QualityAt Work in the Ruins (Written by Dougald Hine)Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/45051 to listen full audiobooks.
Publisher's Summary: Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is the book that grew out of Dougald’s attempt to answer that question. He delves deeply into what he discovered during the globally shared isolating Covid moment, why the virus and the measures taken against it drove so many of us to despair, and how we can re-find our bearings if the pandemic is not the big event that changes everything but simply one in...
2023-02-097h 04Don’t Miss Your Day With A Uplifting Full Audiobook.At Work in the Ruins by Dougald HinePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/45051to listen full audiobooks.
Title: At Work in the Ruins
Author: Dougald Hine
Narrator: Dougald Hine
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 02-09-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 22 ratings
Genres: Anthropology
Publisher's Summary:
Why would someone who cares so deeply about ecological change want to stop talking about it now? At Work in the Ruins is the book that grew out of Dougald’s attempt to answer that question. He delves deeply into what he discovered during the globally shared isolating Covid moment, why the virus and the measures taken against it dr...
2023-02-097h 04
What Can We Do In These Powerful Times?Dougald HineDougald Hine is author and co-founder of Dark Mountain, a cultural movement of people who have "stopped believing the stories our civilisation tells itself" and a School Called HOME, a "a gathering place and a learning community for those who are drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture" (personal website, Substack, wikipedia). His latest book is "At Work in the Ruins", which we discuss at length in the conversation. At the beginning Dougald describes himself as "using words, and sometimes silences, to shift the space of possibility", which I think underplays his r...
2023-02-0453 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E8: 'We Need to Talk About George' We reach the end of Season 4 of The Great Humbling, though Ed and Dougald start the show with an invitation to a one-off live recording of a special episode with guests Rupert Read and Charlotte Du Cann for those who can join us in Norwich on 20 February. As always, we start off by talking about what we've been reading, listening to, watching, imbibing, or otherwise taking on board in ways that get us thinking. Ed has been reading a book called At Work in the Ruins by someone called Dougald Hine.
2023-02-011h 02
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E7: 'The Missing Episode' So, here's what happened – after a long break, we sat down in early October to record the seventh episode of this series, but life got in the way and by the time we got around to editing it six weeks later, the world had changed so much that it felt like a historical document. Britain has (yet) another prime minister, Sweden has a government over which the far-right have an unprecedented influence. But here it is, in any case, 'the missing episode', so you can travel back in time and relive the thoughts that were on...
2022-11-2550 min
The Business Leadership PodcastFuel Your Flow with Pauline Dougald | TBLP 168HomeAboutAll EpisodesWomen LeadersBest Leadership Podcasts MenuHomeAboutAll EpisodesWomen LeadersBest Leadership PodcastsThe Business Leadership Podcast episodeFuel Your Flow with Pauline Dougald “Flow expresses itself totally different to each individual person. It is a highly unique experience and every individual will have its own personal approach to it.” Pauline DougaldIn this episode Fuel Your Flow, Pauline Dougald sits down with host Edwin Frondozo to discuss flow...
2022-09-2730 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E6: 'Nice to meet you' After twenty-nine episodes recorded through screens and cameras, Ed and Dougald find themselves meeting for the first time and sit down for a conversation beside the mill pond in Loddon, in the garden of the Mill of Impermanence. We hear the unlikely tale of how Dougald found Ed’s fiftieth birthday present, a copy of Uriah Heep’s fifth album, The Magician’s Birthday, while en route to a holiday in Great Yarmouth. A chain of serendipitous events leads to the unavoidable conclusion that Yarmouth is the spiritu...
2022-07-1954 min
Campfire PodcastDougald Hine – On Regrowing a Living CultureDougald Hine is a writer and social thinker, and one of the founders of the Dark Mountain Project. He and his partner Anna Björkman have recently bought an old shoe factory in a small community in Sweden, and are in the process of turning it into a home and a teaching house. In this interview with Campfire Stories founder Mattias Olsson, he speaks of what the Dark Mountain Project is, why it came about and how it’s intertwined with the Transition Movement.Links:Support us on Patreon The song in thi...
2022-06-1345 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E5: 'Belief' Dougald poses a big question for this episode: what do we believe in? Ed responds playfully and paradoxically with ‘self-delusion’, citing Robert Trivers work on self-deceit that includes gay pornography and erection-o-meters. And lasers. Here's his RSA talk. Dougald talks about the formative influence of spending the first two-and-a-bit years of his life in the grounds of a theological college and what happened when he told his Sunday school teacher that he didn't find Hell 'a particularly helpful concept’. Does it matter mo...
2022-05-2449 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E4: 'Are we going to talk about Ukraine?' We started this podcast in the early weeks of the pandemic, talking about the stories circling around it. A crisis had come out of the corner of almost everyone's field of vision and became, within weeks, the only thing in the news. Two years on, something similar has happened, so we arrived at this episode wondering whether or not to talk about Ukraine. Dougald remembers Ivan Illich's short text, 'The Right to Dignified Silence' (in In the Mirror of the Past), written in support of West German campaigners who refused to enter into a...
2022-03-2151 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E3: "Remapping Lava" We’ve been listening back to the first episode we made, almost two years ago, in the early weeks of the time of Covid. Maybe it’s the influence of revisiting those early episodes, or maybe it has to do with Dougald turning up to our January recording with a glass of bubbly in hand, but we find ourselves ranging freely – and at some length – in this conversation we’re calling ‘Remapping Lava’. Before we get onto the main theme of the discussion, we bring back the tradition of asking each other what we’v...
2022-01-311h 01
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E2: "The Commonplace" This episode starts with a little reflection on our new more-or-less monthly schedule, and in the course of this episode, we talk about a few other podcasts: Ingrid Rieser's Forest of Thought Per Johansson & Eric Schüldt's Swedish-language Myter och mysterier Ed's other podcast, Jon Richardson & the Futurenauts The Sacred, a podcast from the think tank Theos presented by Elizabeth Oldfield We talk about COP26 and Ed mentions his recent TEDx Kings Cross talk, 'How We're Going to Solve Climate Change' where he refuses the frame of solutionism. To lead us int...
2021-12-2235 min
Forest of Thought16. LIVE: Does it still make sense to talk about climate change? // DOUGALD HINEDoes it still make sense to talk about climate change? This seems a strange question to ask, for someone who has spent much of his adult life talking to people about climate change, but it is the question writer Dougald Hine has found himself wondering about lately.When we talk about climate change, we are entering into a conversation that is framed by science, yet climate change also asks us questions that lead beyond that frame. In recent years, however, the language of science has become supercharged: from the placards that read ‘Unite Behind the Science’ to t...
2021-12-071h 21Forest of Thought16. LIVE: Does it still make sense to talk about climate change? // DOUGALD HINEDoes it still make sense to talk about climate change? This seems a strange question to ask, for someone who has spent much of his adult life talking to people about climate change, but it is the question writer Dougald Hine has found himself wondering about lately.When we talk about climate change, we are entering into a conversation that is framed by science, yet climate change also asks us questions that lead beyond that frame. In recent years, however, the language of science has become supercharged: from the placards that read ‘Unite Behind the Science’ to t...
2021-12-071h 21
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E1: 'Confessions' The Great Humbling is back for a fourth series of conversations between Dougald Hine and Ed Gillespie, now as part of the wider patchwork of Homeward Bound. Our theme for this first episode is confessions, but we start by looking back over the summer that's gone. Ed offers us Carol Campayne's seasonal map of responsible leadership with questions that follow the turning of the year: Spring: What's emerging? What are the new green shoots? Summer: What's blooming? What's in floral technicolor? Autumn: W...
2021-11-0337 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E8: 'Now...breathe!' We begin with some listener feedback from last week’s ‘Get on your knees!’ about prayer… Before Dougald introduces our final instruction of the workout… Now Breathe! We talk about the beautiful, simple pleasures of a degree of lockdown emergence, how Build Back Better went from a call for a radical progressive alliance to seize the moment of the pandemic, to a slogan on Boris Johnson's podium, and Sam Conniff saying he fears our generation's greatest regret will be that we failed to s...
2021-05-2753 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E7: 'Get on your knees!' Ed talks about Martin Shaw’s new book ‘Smokehole - looking to the wild in the time of the spyglass’ and the line ‘The mess out there is because of a mess in here’ Dougald discusses the difference between privilege, entitlement and the ‘work that is mine to do’ and references Alastair McIntosh’s four questions: "Does what I do feed the hungry?" "Is it relevant to the poor or to the broken in nature?"
2021-05-2146 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E6: 'Small yourself up!' Dougald references a long essay by David Cayley, ‘Gaia and the path of the Earth’ and Bruno Latour’s book, Facing Gaia, contradictions ‘must be endured and sustained, not resolved or overcome’ and Vanessa Andreotti on ‘layering’ Ed talks about his first paddle upstream from the Mill and introduces this week’s instruction: ‘Small yourself up’?! via Jamaican buses and Antarctica. Dougald talks about the privilege of taking up space, whether that’s man-spreading on the tube or being quick to jump in and say whatever...
2021-05-1347 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E5: 'See Double!' Dougald realises how his work these days has come to orbit around the future and discovers he’s accidentally became a futurist Ed shares his journey to accidental, reluctant, futurism Then Dougald introduces this week’s instruction is ‘See Double!’ Ed talks about Double Vision or Diplopia - the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally, vertically, diagonally - both vertically and horizontally and how its often voluntary.
2021-05-0641 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E4: 'Do shrooms!' Dougald shares Lucille Clifton’s poem ‘Blessing the boats’ And this week’s instruction is – ‘Do Shrooms!’ Ed introduces one of the inspirations for the episode Merlin Sheldrake’s book, ‘Entangled Life - How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures’ Dougald talks about his fly agaric birthday cake. For his fifth birthday. And then references Alan Garner’s book Strandloper and a collection of talks and essays called...
2021-04-2148 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E3: 'Be like water!' Dougald talks about Campfire Convention https://campfireconvention.uk/ Ed introduces this week’s ‘New Move’ instruction: Be Like Water Dougald tells a story about meeting Cindy Crabb on a North Sea ferry and receiving her zine, later compiled as the Encyclopedia of Doris, a review at Zine Nation says ‘it’s not an overstatement to say that it’s one of the most important and influential fanzines ever written’ and his own zine ‘Learning How to Drown’ Ed talks about...
2021-04-1444 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E2: 'Move your ass!' Let’s get ready to humble! This episode’s instruction is ‘Move Your Ass!’ and Dougald finds himself saying words that have literally never come out of his mouth Dougald talks about finding a place to call HOME. Ed talks about moving to a three hundred year old wooden Norfolk water Mill and horse skull floors. As always we explore the etymology: ‘Move’ from Latin ‘movere’ (move, change, exchange, go in/out, quit) via the old French ‘movei...
2021-04-0843 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S3E1: 'Keep it foolish!' Welcome to series three of the Great Humbling – ‘New Moves’. And given that we’re returning on the 1st of April, which is obviously no accident, your first move is… Keep It Foolish! “A deliberately non-sensical parting farewell, popularised in the TV programme 'Nathan Barley'. It approximately means 'see you later' and 'don't take life too seriously'.” ‘Totally Mexico! How the Nathan Barley nightmare came true’ by Andrew Harrison – https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/10/nathan-barley-charlie-brooker-east-london-comedy We catch up on what w...
2021-04-0143 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E8: 'State of Limbo' We start with a reference to Kenny Rogers to ‘see what condition our condition is in? Then in the context of the US election this clip: https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1158569576168402945?s=21 from Professor Eddie Glaude of African American studies at Princeton ‘White Americans confronting the danger of their innocence’ Dougald talks about Alan Garner’s Boneland and what would it actually do to you as an adult to have been through the kind of things tha...
2020-11-1153 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E7: 'State of Jeopardy' In the week before the US election we finally do an episode where we talk about American politics and how it fits into this larger conversation about what it means if we’re living in a time of great humbling. ‘Jeopardy’ was originally used in the 14th century in chess and other games to denote a problem, or a position in which the chances of winning or losing were evenly balanced. It’ss the exposure to or imminence of death, loss, or injury. The danger that an accused p...
2020-10-3151 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E6: 'State of Play' Do grown-ups play? What’s been playing on our minds this week? Ed talks about the House of Beautiful Business - ‘The Great Wave’, hislove letter to the ocean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MvdgAZThw&feature=youtu.be) and ‘Wild Solo’...and their playful silent hour farewell...the embodiment of playfulness...mime, secret notes, hugs, smiling with your eyes... Dougald talks about Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane, a children’s book for grown-ups and Gaiman’s lect...
2020-10-2245 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E5: 'State of Anger' “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention” Dougald pays to get emails from a very angry man – Mic Wright’s Substack, Conquest of the Useless (which he picked up via Chris T-T’s The Border Crossing newsletter) Ed shares his ‘Twitter Hate-storm’ story! (https://mashable.com/article/covert-photos-strangers-going-viral-twitter/?europe=true) From the hottest day ever recorded in the UK - 38.7 degrees in July 2019 and worryingly there’s something of a fairly linear relationship between rising temperatures and rising anger (and violence Ref...
2020-10-1543 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E4: 'State of Tension' Here we are in a state of tension… What have we been reading? ‘The Precipice - Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-precipice-9781526600219/ Revisiting The Road by Cormac McCarthy Paul Behren's brilliant The Best of Times / the Worst of Times Balance these with voices that straddle different scales. Three that Dougald is finding helpful just now: Chris Smaje's blog (and forthcom...
2020-10-1044 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E2 'State of Grace' We start with Adam Ramsay, ‘Queer Eye’, Jordan Peterson and the Battle for Depressed Men – https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/queer-eye-jordan-peterson-and-the-battle-for-depressed-men/ Do we really have to choose between Carl Jung and archetypal psychology on the one side and Antonio Gramsci and the analysis of hegemony on the other side? We reflect on whether the West Country School of Myth’s visceral, transcendental and universal approach touches on the really deep recognitions we all have for human dilemmas, experiences and patterns of behaviour...
2020-09-2446 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E1: 'State of Alert' We call these conversations the Great Humbling because we start from a sense that this is a time of being humbled, brought down to earth, and we want to ask what happens if we approach the moment we’re in on those terms? In this second season each week we’ll be taking a state of mind that seems to be part of the mix of being alive just now. So this is the Great Humbling: Season Two – Altered States - States...
2020-09-1746 min
State of Emergence043 Dougald Hine & Anna Björkman – Is It Trickster Time?Deep thinkers and community innovators Dougald Hine & Anna Björkman (who also happen to be life partners and co-parents) join Terry to reflect on the nature of sanity, evil, community, and the crafting of a "living culture." First, we delve underneath the surface of what's happening here in the U.S., intuiting archetypal energies. Is this the time of the "Trickster"? Or are we seeing a shadow version of the Trickster sitting on the throne? Might it instead be the time of the "wild woman" archetype? How might we work consciously with these archetypal energies in ourselves and our w...
2020-09-121h 50
The Two Idiots PodcastTwo Idiots 73: A New Way Forward feat. Dougald LamontThis week the Idiots are joined by Manitoba Liberal leader, and honorary Third Idiot, Dougald Lamont! We chat about the provincial Liberals being separate from the Feds, favourite books, gun laws, voting reform, Liberal Premiers, Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba's financial worries, Irish illegal mustache executions, and more! Definitely looking forward to having Dougald back on the show soon; enjoy!
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2020-07-091h 14
Forest of Thought4. A world of many worlds // DOUGALD HINEThe big story of never-ending Progress has captured our imaginations for hundreds of years. But now we seem to be witnessing its unravelling. The search for other stories is no longer a fringe activity, but taking place in all parts of society. What do we want to keep from this story, and what do we leave behind? In this episode we explore the idea of Progress together with writer Dougald Hine.Ten years ago, Dougald co-founded The Dark Mountain Project, which has grown into world-wide community of artists and writers. He and his partner Anna Björ...
2020-06-2551 minForest of Thought4. A world of many worlds // DOUGALD HINEThe big story of never-ending Progress has captured our imaginations for hundreds of years. But now we seem to be witnessing its unravelling. The search for other stories is no longer a fringe activity, but taking place in all parts of society. What do we want to keep from this story, and what do we leave behind? In this episode we explore the idea of Progress together with writer Dougald Hine.Ten years ago, Dougald co-founded The Dark Mountain Project, which has grown into world-wide community of artists and writers. He and his partner Anna Björ...
2020-06-2551 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E7: 'The cultivation of conspiracy?' Conspiracy literally means 'to breathe together'. What is causing us to inhale such a complex mix of vaporous ideas right now? Are these 'voodoo histories' being written wilfully or are they a perhaps understandable response to fear and uncertainty? And how do these 'double binds' of inextricable impossibilities influence the way we receive information and shape our intention? As always we begin with what caught our attention this week Ed - The House of Beautiful Business - The Great Wave and t...
2020-05-1858 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E6 'As deep as culture' We start with Martin Shaw’s hare-piece (hair piece?) - ‘A Hare’s Leap or a Rabbit’s Hop?’, a typically stirring offering from Dr Shaw that bristles with energy and soul, and backbone... “Culture is being forced to leap at this moment, but we run grievous risk of a rabbit hop back to safety not a hare leap into the deeper life.” “[Hare] nags, and pulls and bites until something vast is happening to us. We are dragged into the presence of strang...
2020-05-0750 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E5 'A world turned upside down' Introducing ‘A World Turned Upside Down’, an old english ballad ‘a brief description of the ridiculous fashions of these distracted times’...coined in protest at Parliament’s attempts to make Christmas a solemn occasion (not a traditionally english raucous one) David Fell - The Economics of Enough - and his piece: Eleven Things So Far – manages to be the most random and one of the most thoughtful things Dougald haas read among all the hundreds of thousands of words written in and about this crisis – close to the spirit of these conversations...
2020-04-3050 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E4: 'A bestiary of metaphors' In this episode Dougald and Ed explore the ‘bestiary’ of metaphors stalking this time, the creatures of our imaginations, we are walking with beasts – black elephants, green swans, impossible hamsters – and nightingales. ‘Will there be singing in the dark times. Yes, there will be singing about the dark times’ Bertolt Brecht 1939 We begin by revisiting a quote from Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees in 2015: ‘It is imperative to guard against the downsides o...
2020-04-2440 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E3: 'Framing a language of longing' In this episode we explore the framing of a potential 'language of longing', beginning with the usual reviews of our recent relevant reading: 'Eco-Anxiety' by Anouschka Grose (which explores pertinent themes: anxiety, trauma, grief, immortality systems and death denial - as well as their counter-points joy, wonder, awe, imagination, wild generosity and radical friendliness) for Ed, as well as Martin Shaw's forthcoming book 'All Those Barbarians' - the 'grimoire' of the School of Myth, which introduces us to the story of the Gordian Knot, and the idea of timeless and time-bound stories.
2020-04-1741 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E2: 'Can we afford an economic recovery?' You can hear the rising chatter: the bubbling of ‘back to normal’, the stimulus packages, the business resurrection plans, the recovery that everyone is longing for, and at the heart of it the sense that economic growth is the answer. But is it? Perhaps the biggest sacred cow, so deeply embedded culturally as to be unquestionable, is ready to be de-pedestalled? In this second episode Dougald and Ed hold a conversational space around challenging the idea that whatever form the recovery takes it has to ‘sound like growth’...
2020-04-0945 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E1: 'Mapping Lava' How will they look in hindsight, these times we're living through? Is this a midlife crisis on the road to the Star Trek future, or the point at which that story of the future unravelled and we came to see how much it had left out? What if our current crises are neither an obstacle to be overcome, nor the end of the world, but a necessary humbling? With Covid-19 calling into question the ways we have been living, Ed Gillespie and Dougald Hine set out to explore what it means to be h...
2020-04-0459 min