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Post author By David Anthony Pittaway
Post date 2019-12-03

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CMR Audio Project – Episode 3 – Dr Denning Metuge
CMR Audio Project – Episode 2 – Prof Janine Adams
CMR Audio Project – Episode 1 – Dr Berny Snow
Podcast #20: High Water Bridge (the band)
Article: A lesson on equality for the US from post-apartheid South Africa
Article: “Free us from mind control”: A contextual addition to the US protests
Article: Enough with the ‘saving lives’ lie
Article: Coronovirus, meaningless numbers, disaster capitalism: Oligarchy’s dream come true
Podcast #19: Sharon Rudman on Ideology, Discourse and Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa
Podcast #18 – Lloyd Edwards from Raggy Charters
Podcast #17 – Mark Marshall on Snakes, Snake Handling, Conservation (and more!)
Podcast #16 – Kevin Abraham on music and business successes
Podcast #15 – Karen and Corné du Plessis on Food and Nihilism (and much more!)
Podcast #14 – Jonathan Silverman on art (and much more!)
Rocket stove oven (pics + video)
Podcast #11 – Ian Buchanan on Assemblage Theory (Deleuze), Control Society, and More
Podcast #7: Andrea Hurst and Belinda du Plooy on The Water Pilgrimage, a University Engagement Event
Podcast #5: Gary Koekemoer on WESSA, Nelson Mandela Bay, fish farms, bunkering, and more
Podcast #1: Les Albrecht on Wine and Vaginas (and more)
The Centre for the Transformation of Habitual Perception
(Small-scale Solar Energy) + (Positive Sacrifice) = Sustainability
Podcast #2: Anton Botha (former Mandela-Rhodes and Fullbright Scholar, and United Nations Employee)
Article: Know thy Systemic Enemies – Mechanisms that Prevent Transformation
Rocket stove sauna version 2.0
New thermal mass rocket heater for tiny cabin
A Brief Introduction to Yoga and Meditation for Seniors
Podcast #13: Das and Clara on Shamanism, initiations, conscious living, meditation, and more
Article: A philosophical situation: democratic capitalism, the ecological crisis, and the issue of choice
Podcast #3: Mike Raimondo from Green Renaissance (Amazing Short Inspirational Films)
Podcast #9: Dan Cornick on The Amatola Hike, Away With The Fairies (famous Hogsback backpackers), an encounter with a fairy, and more
Podcast #10: Angie and Rod on Learning Clan, an off-grid, co-created talent exchange community village in the forest
Podcast #4: Bert Olivier on all things Philosophy
Article: “To learn healing knowledge”: Philosophy, psychedelic studies and transformation
Podcast #6: Sean Martin on Blockchain, disintermediation, trust, adding value, business, provenance, and more
Article: Placing the ecological crisis in a broader context – the Orphic and the Promethean
Podcast #12 Riley Thompson on Gender Transition, Bipolar, Art, Creativity, and more
Linux Mint 19 installation, and getting WINE to work
Mini ‘Peterberg’ batch burner
Small solar power system at off-grid cabin
Rocket thermal mass heater
Eco-brick reading room build at Jikani community centre
Reflections on a transformative philosophy talk that face-planted
Podcast #8: Rudi Engelbrecht on Vipassana meditation and walking 4500 kms around South Africa
DIY compost toilet – urine diversion using watering can as separator
Thermal mass rocket stove steam room suana
The Gorge Plot’s off-grid shed/cabin
Filling in some gaps to the story so far
On the Green Renaissance video: No Somewhere Else
Humanure how-to: helpful links
Pictures: basic shed/cabin construction
Tour of 5 year old rustic abode
Thermal Mass Rocket Heater
Research study: introduction and background
Research study: aims and methodology
Research study: hypotheses
Research study: comments on some central terms
Research study: summary
Research study: conventions
Research study: overall conclusion
Research study: recommendations and suggestions – specific actions
Research study: recommendations and suggestions – on the paradoxical need to discriminate
Research study: recommendations and suggestions – general points
Research study: recommendations and suggestions – points relating to philosophy
7.4.1 Conclusion to Chapter 7
7.3.1.8 On communitary engagement
7.3.1.7 On the Orphic theme of inner peace
7.3.1.6 On philosophical transformation
7.3.1.5 The Sage and the Wold: Habitual perception and Philosophical perception
7.3.1.4 Philosophy as a way of life is Orphic: Hadot’s analysis
7.3.1.3 Philosophy as a way of life (á la Hadot) is Orphic: the Philo extract
7.3.1.2 Discourse about philosophy / Philosophical discourse
7.3.1.1 Hadot on Philosophy as a transformative process
7.2.2.12 Comments on the structure on this study: example of a philosophical progression
7.2.2.11 Thinking the ‘transformation of life’
7.2.2.10 Humanity as it has been historically constituted / The established model of humanity
7.2.2.9 Preconceived ideas of human nature
7.2.2.8 Singularity participating in universality
7.2.2.7 Redefining human nature
7.2.2.6 Shedding light on the distance between power and truths
7.2.2.5 Elucidating choice
www.crocssa.co.za review
7.2.2.4 No certainty of ‘being at home’; internal foreignness; the breakdown of organic society
7.2.2.3 Changing the concepts of the debate
7.2.2.2 Philosophy and the creation of new problems
7.2.2.1 Philosophy is not a dialogue: Incommensurability, mutual exclusivity, and paradoxical relations
7.2.1.4 Philosophy: cutting through particulars to reach the universal
7.2.1.3 Žižek: philosophy as the creation of new problems – the biogenetics example
7.2.1.2 Badiou: what is a situation for philosophical thought?
7.2.1.1 The philosopher’s ‘personal views’ versus philosophy itself
Chapter 7 of PhD: introduction
Link to full article: making the case for cannabis
Making the Case for Cannabis – a philosophical contribution
Making The Case for Cannabis – a newspaper article
The permaculture chapter: conclusion
The permaculture chapter: immediate priorities
The permaculture chapter: principle 12 – creatively use and respond to change
The permaculture chapter: principle 11 – use edges and value the marginal
The permaculture chapter: principle 10 – use and value diversity
The permaculture chapter: principle 9 – use small and slow solutions
The permaculture chapter: principle 8 – integrate rather than segregate
The permaculture chapter: principle 7 – design from patterns to details
The permaculture chapter: principle 6 – produce no waste
The permaculture chapter: principle 5 – use and value renewable resources and services
The permaculture chapter: principle 4 – apply regulation and accept feedback
The permaculture chapter: principle 3 – obtain a yield
The permaculture chapter: principle 2 – catch and store energy
The permaculture chapter: principle 1 – observe and interact
The permaculture chapter: twelve principles
The permaculture chapter: permaculture – definition and ethics
The permaculture chapter: sources of information
The permaculture chapter: urgency to transition
The permaculture chapter: Disclaimer and Introduction
The Zeitgeist Movement
First update of 2016 and a few reflections – better late than never!!
The Occupy Movement
Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics
Magicians of the Gods: Review + food for thought
Hancock’s Civilisation with Amnesia
Research study: Sheldrake’s morphic field theory (section of chapter 5)
THE PEOPLE of Guatemala just succeeded in arresting their corrupt president: evidence that consent of THE PEOPLE matters
Crucial Info: background to why we MUST transform South Africa
Let Us Transform South Africa
‘Voices from the suburbs’ discussion / debate: A RESPONSE
Audio discussion: ‘Voices from the suburbs – can we talk our way out?’ – PE Philosophy Café
Research study: Hawken’s ‘Blessed Unrest’ (section of chapter 5)
Research study: ‘older cultures’ (section of chapter 5)
Research study: chapter 5 introduction
March against Monsanto: my thoughts (video)
Princen’s Traffic Control Measures
Elon Musk on the Tesla PowerWall (Video)
Charles Eisenstein – Interview/Discussion @ London Real
Deleuze’s societies of control
Guest speakers at a Health and Wellness Fair
Garden update: pictures ;-)
Marcuse’s one-dimensionalality
Democracy in a neoliberal free-market capitalist system
Mill’s dangers of democracy
Chapter 4 of study: short intro, etc.
General update after extended absence: autumn equinox 2015
On the Industrial Growth Society, or ACID
Capitalism (and the eco-crisis)
Solar cooker at work…
Herald snake happy in the compost…
Science (and the eco-crisis)
Technology (and the eco-crisis)
Christianity (and the eco-crisis)
Research study: introduction to chapter 3
The new kitchen-‘lounge’ – pictures: then to now!
Lamb – wise enough (?)
Early spring garden pictures… and a few comments, of course!
‘In good time’
Woodwork / building update
The bio-tech industry (part of chapter 2 of research study)
The meat and fish industries – part of chapter 2 of research study
‘Shed’ walls etc.
The mining industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
The construction industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
Polyphasic sleep update – reflections on why I slipped!!!
The agriculture industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
The petrochemical industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
The fossil-fuel industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
The fractional reserve money industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
Mid-August update and a few musings…
Mid winter vegetable garden pics update
Overpopulation and resource depletion – part of chapter 1 of research study
Landfill waste, associated pollution, toxic and chemical waste – – part of chapter 1 of research study
Fresh water – part of chapter 1 of research study
Deforestation – part of chapter 1 of research study
Loss of topsoil – part of chapter 1 of research study
Greenhouse gases, carbon emissions and climate change – part of chapter 1 of research study
Loss of biodiversity – part of chapter 1 of research study
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) – part of chapter 1 of research study
Another call to change. (A.k.a. Writing about an ecological crisis while trying to live ‘alternatively’)
Journal entry 7 – slowing down, stopping, presence, progress.
Polyphasic sleep log – day 96
Journal entry 6 – I too am part of the project!
Ph.D. Proposal: Philosophy and Permaculture
Journal entry 5 – changing routine, work cycles, daylight hour adjustment, permaculture lives…
Topping up raised beds
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 63
Journal entry 4 – rain, electricity, periodic work cycles (a.k.a. seasonality), raised bed revitalisation
Journal entry 3 – tiny house living (etc.)
Journal entry 2 – summer to autumn 2014
Polyphasic Sleep Log Day 39
Journal entry 1 – Gtown townhouse / Transkei
My Ph.D; This Blog
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 33
A Recipe and a Rant: Rocket Stove Whole-Wheat Non-(bloody)GM Brown Bread
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 21
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 15
Ditch the ‘Bitches’: Save Stacks of Money… the (Radical) Permaculture Way.
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 11
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 6
‘Bathroom’ – shower and compost toilet
Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 2
Rustic Permaculture Homestead: ‘Shed’ Development
Polyphasic sleep log – evening of day 1
Polyphasic Sleep Log: Morning One
Song Lyrics by Cog: “I don’t listen to the government”
THE University of Life? One? Really? (a.k.a. Changing Jobs)
This Blog, This Project, This Process
Need one say more?
How’s this for a sweet potato…?
Ye old coil trick (solar water heating phase 1)
Growing garden(s)
nice sky…
Seedling nursery
‘The Sticks’ by Mother Mother
School visit
General update, and, if you’ll bare with it, some reflection ;-)
‘Hugels’ Gone Wild
Quote for the day
Taking Shape – ‘floor plan’ diagram
Quick harvest pic…
The start of (another) veggie garden
Trellising Granadillas
Cool cat…erpillar
Bettie’s veggie patch
The nursery – aka rubber ring of manure!
Keyhole garden bed
Square Foot Garden – 2 months later
Square foot gardening – giving it a go
Lyrics – Cire’s ‘Brand X Misery’
It’s been a while…
Walter Russel – inspiring quotes
DIY heavy duty transport
Berkley Composting
Hugel beds
Compost cooking itself…
Gently weaving a wattle fence!
Rocket stove at work
The Start of compost, the hot-box way
No through road… anymore!
Camp!
Preparing for a ‘roof’
Start of camp
Distractions!
Trenches help!
Wetlands – really wet wetlands!
A wet start…
Larf’s place
London to North Scotland via Cornwall?
Earthbag boundary wall SW London
5 hours with the trees
Business suits may as well be bat suits.
About YOU! (kinda)

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