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Alinternet reflections
by Alinta Pilkington
Reflections on society, drawn from philosophical thinking about current day politics, science and spirituality
Episodes
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Pilot Episode of Eco-philosophise - Alinta Pilkington
I've started a new channel! It's called eco-philosophise, and on it I interview guests about a wide range of topics relating to the environment! Super sneaky peek preview here of the first episode, where I get interviewed by my dear friend Josh. This episode explores the philosophical concepts...
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Planet Earth - An Australian User's Guide
What is our place in this great Earth metabolism? Are we justlocusts, bound to consume endlessly without ever giving back? What are our evolutionary options here? Could we use our big, developed brains to stewardnatural systems– since we seem to be outside them regardless? How can we use Planet...
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Eat the rich
The super-rich are locking our societies into an increasingly dirty 'Business as Usual' through the forces of Neoliberalism and widening inequalities. Let's take back our ideological power.
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Unity in nature
For me there is mysticism, wonder and creation to be found in the miracles wrought every day in nature. Do we have in us the potential for unity? Just maybe, we do.
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Limbic Capitalism
Limbic Capitalism is a term coined by historian David Courtwright in his 2021 book the Age of Addiction which refers to the coordinated and predatorial way big corporate, complicit governments and criminal organisations target or pleasure seeking limbic system to generate an addiction to their...
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Is capitalism reconcilable with environmental and social goals?
With our limited time left can we consider Capitalism as a vehicle for putting the planet at the centre of our agendas?
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Corryong's Acres and Acres co-op
Located at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, Corryong's Acres and Acres co-op found a way to restore food relief to a town devastated by the Black Summer bushfires
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Welcome to Corowa Tree of Life Community Garden
Corowa is a small town nestled on the border of Australia's New South Wales and Victoria. For 10 years it has been servicing it's community, providing safety, food security and democracy to it's residents. This podcast is a deep dive into its origin story and values.
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Truth
Truth. Is it objective? Or can we only ever grapple with it in its subjectivities? That is, is truth shaped by own experiences and position within the world? Is, what is truth to us, simply the paradigm or discourse that we operate within? And if so, how do we challenge or change what it is that…
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Degrowth
How degrowth can provide the solution to environmental and social problems, when guided by participatory action methodologies
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How community co-ops are competing with unsustainable agriculture
A research report on three co-ops in Sydney and how they are disrupting cruel and wasteful processes of big supermarkets with market share
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How community co-ops can help us to reclaim our cities
Forces like Neoliberalistic Capitalism and the constant pursuit of surplus capital are transforming our cities into elite playgrounds. Community-owned co-ops might hold the solution in taking it back
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How the rich are stealing your future - episode 1
The power of the profit-motive
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My race (human)
The only boundary I see is values-based.
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Tools for health
How to conquer your bad habits this year. Tools for having self-discipline, as well as self-compassion, learning how to hold yourself to account whilst holding space for yourself. New year, new year, new gamified habit system
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NYE Linsights
A tasting plate of epiphanies - from work and play, to rhythm and melodies to adhering to principles and spontaneously making meaning. Happy 2022 everybody, may the next year be as rich as your imagination.
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My body
Emily Ratajkowski, in sharing her experiences of growing up as a model with all of its personal and professional complexies, invites us to examine concepts of ownership, sexuality, identity, security and power.
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What is caring
Is caring based in attachment or acceptance? In letting go or in resisting? In wanting to preserve or in accepting destruction? And how can we use this concept of our ethic of care in approaching saving the planet?
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The separateness of humans
Can we ever be part of the great Earth metabolism? And by doing so would we fill the void first created by seeing ourselves as separate?
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Our mental and planetary resilience
Planetary and mental resilience are linked – we need to heal ourselves to heal the world. Climate change has traumatised us and our industrialised ways of living speak of dissociations with our natural world. Healing ourselves mentally and emotionally is the best way to save the planet.
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Critical Thinking
The importance of this skill and how it can permeate through society
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Energy
An examination of the mechanics and philosophy behind how we manifest energy into our reality and how we can bring the world into a higher vibrational state.
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Love: Society's missing Peace
An examination of the fear-based dynamics of western society and a guide on how to bust through our collective neuroses with love. Adult content warning.
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The ethical ambiguity of volunteerism
What is the value of values and how do we ensure that those who volunteer to protect values are properly valued in return?
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Distinction-making
This podcast examines the cognitive skills needed for living a sustainable life aligned and in-flow with a natural environment. Distinction-making capabilities helps us learn skills, practice music, think and tolerate one another.
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Challenging waste and exploitation
Waste and exploitation are intimately connected and contained within our cultural DNA. How do we imagine new, grassroots and decentralised ways of tackling them and discovering a better, fairer and more connected future?
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Freedom
How to stop being who you think you are and find your own path (spoiler alert: involves jumping)
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Kindness bidding (accepting and advancing the offer)
How practicing kindness, rapport and gratitude can transform communication and change the world - one relationship at a time.
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Language and Memory Systems
This blog examines the relationship between linguistics and systems of memory, including schema (gestalt) building via language; Theory of Mind (ToM) and its relationship to learning how to articulate and communicate at an early age; Semantic, Episodic and Procedural memory systems and the role…
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Partial mistrust and total acceptance (morality)
Take a little mud and expose the diamonds
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Whose shoes are you wearing? (2003)
A discompassionate tale of empathy
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Accepting abundance
Why do we ask for less, and how do we live in a world of more?
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Psychosis
Or the ravings of a questioning mind?
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Historical Psychology (feeling like a Freud)
In this podcast I discuss the reasons for and traditions in psychology over the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries. Are our current knowledge paradigms still relevant or just relentless white noise?
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Are we selfish?
Well, are we?
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A Vicious Cycle (2006)
A short story examining the transmission of toxic masculinity down through generations and how this can shape and break lives.
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International environmental governance - a Japan whaling case study
What can Japan's decision to leave the International Whaling Commission in 2018 tell us about the state of international environmental politics, and how could the solution lie in increased localisation?
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Death and Immortality (2005)
A short story written in 2005 about what the social implications would be of discovering the secret to immortality. Would it be just another weapon of class division? Themes of class struggle, religion, relationships, economics and environmental ethics are all explored in this short feature…
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Manifesto on simplicity
Should materialism be the end-goal of humanity? A simple solution to complex problems: a simple life.
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Hero Worship (2009)
Why do we do it, and what's the point of a hero anyway?
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Cannabis (2008)
It's joys, it's impacts, mental health, crime, it's history in Australian society and whether a criminalisation or harm minimisation approach work best for regulating its use in society.
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Where's family gone? (2016)
Ramblings on the breaking up of communities and rise of industry; and the impact that both these forces have had on individual potential and values.
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About me
My life since 2011 has been rocked and defined by climate change and a growing awareness of the challenges that face all human societies. My personal journey involves starting degrees in Communications, Psychology, and the Environment, and finding first psychosis and then clarity.
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On communication
How does language shape thought? The shape of the book; orality vs literacy; jargon (standardisation of language) vs meaning-making (and use of rhetoric); and how their mastery enables deep learning and brings mindfulness are all explored in this series of short essays.
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Rethinking the economy to solve global problems
Carbon emissions, deforestation, plastic waste. What follows is a collation of international environmental law essays which examine how the composition of state-based economies frame a collective inability to solve global 'wicked' problems. The beginnings of an examination of how use-based…
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Planetary Boundaries (2018)
An analysis of Steffen et al's paradigm shifting 'Planetary Boundaries' framework, first published in 2015. What does it mean for Earth, how does it communicate this message and is it already too late for change?
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On dominion
For whatever you take control of, takes control of you.
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What could democratised education look like?
Could it be contained in an app? Is there a different way for society to share knowledge and gain skills then being forced through a series of institutions at great financial and time-based cost? I have an idea, and I think it's a good one.
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Towards a community-based and grassroots society
What could our collective future look like? How do we get there? My 2022 Master's thesis seeks to tackle these questions by facilitating a spectrum of different people with different backgrounds and perspectives to collectively daydream a new way of existing.
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Drilling the Great Australian Bight
In 2019 Oil Giant Equinor got approval to begin drilling the Great Australian Bight - one of the last pristine marine ecosystems on Earth. This was despite overwhelming opposition from people-powered protests and NGOs. This audio-essay examines the stakeholders, timelines and outcomes of this…
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Reflections on society, drawn from philosophical thinking about current day politics, science and spirituality
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Alinta Pilkington
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