permapoesis: Society for the retardation of time

Permapoesis

Permapoesis is the portmanteau for permanent making. A term I've developed, incorporating permaculture principles, shared Aboriginal knowledges and our own neopeasant lifeways to help reclaim sensible thought and remodel ecological economies of material accountability.

My most recent book, re:)Fermenting culture can now be listened to as a non-monetised audio book. Just click the pop out below. Gifts in exchange for this labour are most welcome, and in some form will be passed on in what I call a flow of gifts economy.

My name is Patrick Jones. I live and labour on Djaara peoples' country. Dja Dja Wurrung is the first language of this land. I acknowledge the six Djaara seasons and pay homage to the regenerative economies upon which Djaara living culture sits. The spirit and logic of which my household draws upon in our everyday productions and lifeways while simultaneously drawing upon our own indigenous peoples through story and the ancestral plants, animals, microbes, mushrooms and uncapitalised medicines that have also emplaced on this country. We recognise the system of racism that terra nullius continues to instil in the dominant culture, and recognise that as people of many diverse white cultures we still hold cultural blinders that our historical trauma sits within and (now) our privilege stands upon.

Here are some of my books. The bottom two can be purchased from me direct, however if you're moving to a non-monetary economy I'll post you one in exchange for a gift of your making. Please feel free to suggest an exchange by emailing me (click above 'Contact me' tab).

Society for the retardation of time

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

I've been reading John Zerzan's Running on Emptiness, in which he describes a small group of Europeans who collectively call themselves The Society for the Retardation of Time. Zerzan argues that time and time compression are things of civilisation, things that require constant criticism and awareness if we are to reclaim our lives from alienation, reification and estrangement.

Joy and status anxiety rarely collaborate, and as Michael Pollan says "if it's advertised it's probably toxic".

Zerzan's essay Time and its Discontents is available here.

3 comments:

sunset art said...: Oh awesome, thanks for this!; May 14, 2012 at 8:49 PM
contemporary canvas said...: Great stuff, thanks a lot for sharing!; May 22, 2012 at 7:57 PM
london canvas said...: Is Joy really the new BMW? I think not!; May 25, 2012 at 7:16 PM

Permapoesis

re:)Fermenting culture (2017) Sold Out in hard copy

Click the 'Pop out' to listen to re:)Fermenting culture (or click through to download audio file)

A Free-dragging Manifesto (2008)

Words and Things (2004)

Earlier

DCFG

Social Media I no longer use

Coming Soon (to a lifestyle near you)

Relocalise Hepburn

Society for the retardation of time

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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