Act Out! podcast

How do artists and creatives think of their work in terms of dollars and cents? It feels wrong - because it inherently is. Art and creativity, the labor of creation - is the antithesis to a system based on destruction, on profit and quantifiable work over connections that can never be commodified.

This week, we step into the multilayered nerdery of art and capitalism, with some help from dead French philosophers, vinyls, Robinson Crusoe and mixed metaphors.

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Huey P. Newton wrote that "we all belong to one society yet live in different worlds."

The layers of self in these worlds, the infinite intersections, the myriad truths are all sources of power - when combined. When kept in sharp and separate boxes, our connections to each other and to our selves are amputated.

In order to build, we must color outside the lines - into each other's existence.

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An anti-capitalist nerderific look at failure, focus and boundaries:

Why do we have such a troubled relationship with failure? Why can't we feel the life in the ruins?

Oh woe when we take our daily distracted energy into our movements spaces...what kind of worlds could we possibly hope to build?

Finally, setting boundaries is anti-capitalist. And it's the only way to show up with fairness and care for yourself and your community.

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Come into the nerdery and help me chew over some of the ideas from Douglas Rushkoff's book Team Human.

How do linear belief systems fuck over the planet and ultimately of course, humans too? How can a cyclical perspective change the way we are in relationship with ourselves, each other and the planet? And can we let go of the need to 'own' ideas in favor of embracing ideas buried, silenced or ignored?

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The institutionalization of activism - much like charity - depends on preserving the current capitalist system. So, it feels like an apt and vital time - for a radical change.

At the same time, whatever you call it, if "it" means building for justice, grassroots autonomous power, we're on the same side - and we don't have time to burn bridges.

Meanwhile, less than a week into 2021 and we've already got men dressed up as goats taking over the Capitol building...what a time to be alive!

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It's remarkable how much more we can reflect on in the dark...

A special solstice thinky-dink nerderific episode on accountability, jagged boundaries and the differences between not caring and self caring.

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It's remarkable how much more we can reflect on in the dark...

A special solstice thinky-dink nerderific episode on accountability, jagged boundaries and the differences between not caring and self caring.

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As Karen Armstrong writes, "human beings have always been mythmakers." We seek meaning, we seek protection and comfort. But not all myths are created equal.

Some myths are incredibly dangerous - they distort and cover up a harsh reality that unless faced, will destroy us.

In this tour of the nerdery, Eleanor slides along the spectrum of dangerous myths and offers up some ideas on how we could use acculturation to face the facts and dig up the truth of our past, so that we might build a better future.

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A cathartic step into the nerdery this week - spinning some spoken word, calling out the grating cheers for a war criminal racist sexist, a symphony requiem mass for the illusions we must lose - if we want to win anything.

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Got a special episode for y'all this week - featuring the voices of Deception 2020 - the series I've been doing in the lead-up to the election. Hear from Dan Kovalik, Nick Braña, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Mickey Huff, Eugene Puryear and Leonardo Flores on issues and angles you'd never hear from corporate media.

And in all of this, through all of this - we are not alone, we are the solidarity of the shaken.

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