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Slow Down by Kohei Saito
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Slow Down by Kohei Saito
The EDC Book Club continues with a discussion of this exciting new book. Please share your thoughts about the book in this discussion thread, and join us if you can for a live discussion on Wednesday, March 27th:
https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/read-with-us-kohei-saitos-slow-down/
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EDC Book Club: Slow Down by Kohei Saito
Join the EDC Book Club this month for a discussion of a new book on the degrowth movement by Japanese philosopher and political ecologist Kohei Saito, author of the highly influential Capital in the Anthropocene. Join EDC curators Michael Degani … Continue reading
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A great discussion about the book: the concept of an imperial mode of living, Saito’s critique of Marx and his critique of contemporary constructions of the future, as well as the strategies of collective organizing he suggests as pathways toward a viable degrowth communism. We talked about the stagnation of capitalist economies around the world, slowing down as a phenomenon already underway, about the limits of both productivism and a kind of Promethean modernism, and about tensions and impasses between individual and collective self-understanding. Lastly, we talked about failures in contemporary imagination and the need to shift the parameters of reality to think beyond capitalism, which is related directly to our hopes with the EDC of working together to recuperate other futures, lean into practices of materially remaking the world, and working with cities and localities as arenas of engagement. I may continue to share more thoughts here; please feel free to join in…
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