Schumacher Center for New Economics Archives

Schumacher Institute Lecture – Bayo Akomolafe, May We Live in Interesting Times

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe offers the parable of the Behemoth – a strange motif that warps choice and subjects it to forces beyond human agency. In a seminal year of wars and losses and apartheidic endings, when going left doesn’t feel that much different from going right, when justice feels inadequate to the rising tensions of the hour, where larger algorithms are in play, Dr. Akomolafe senses that a different, supplementary politics is needed, a different performance of power. Something stranger than hope, than clarity, than knowing what to do. And something that brings us to the feet of ‘the monstrous.’

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Schumacher Institute – To Be Thy Adam – Agency, Activism & Collective Intelligence in the Ruins of the Human

In this conversation, author Dougald Hine, theologian Catherine Keller, philosopher Alex Forrester, and posthumanist thinker Bayo Akomolafe explore new patterns of accountability, agency, collective intelligence, and responsibility. In times marked by intractable wars, insurgent quests for justice and reparations, and the troubling phenomenon of AI, all-too-theological questions emerge of how to think with (and within) the ruins of the modern imaginary.

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Schumacher Conversations – Democratizing Monetary Issue Tools for Resilience

The Schumacher Center is convening a monthly series featuring New Economic thinkers, builders and activists from a range of fields. Featuring: – Christine Desan, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism – Susana Martín Belmonte, an independent economist focused on the digitization of money for the transition to a fair and low-carbon economy – Will Ruddick, Founder of Grassroots Economics Foundation – Moderated by Eric Harris-Braun, Co-Founder of Holochain and Advisory Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics.

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Schumacher Institute Robert Swann Lecture – Community Not for Sale with Andrea Golden

The Second Annual Robert Swann Lecture featured Andrea Golden of PODER Emma, a community ownership and cooperative development organization in Asheville, NC. Andrea delivered her lecture, “Community Not For Sale: Popular Education, Community Organizing and Cooperative Economics,”

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Schumacher Conversations – Regenerating Local Food Economies

The Schumacher Center is convening a monthly series featuring New Economic thinkers, builders and activists from a range of fields. Featuring: - Elizabeth Henderson (Peacework Farm / Northeast Organic Farmers Association) - Dr. Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) - Dr. Vandana Shiva (author, Navdanya) - Severine Von Tsharner Fleming, host (Greenhorns, Agrarian Trust)

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