Come to the second part of “Connection, Meaning and Politics” - on Indra Adnan's new book, "The Politics of Waking Up" (with Jeremy Lent)
We invite you to join the second part of our two part discussion, hosted by the Alternative UK. The overall title is Connection, Meaning and Politics - a general title for an extraordinary combination of insights and vision.
Part two is an interview and Q&A with Indra Adnan, whose new book is The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age (info and buy here).
The interviewer will be Jeremy Lent, author of The Web of Meaning, and the host will be Pat Kane, editor of A/UK’s Daily Alternative.
The event takes place on Zoom at 6.00pm-7.00pm BST (10.00pm-11.00am PDT) on Tuesday, July 6th, 2021. To attend, sign up on Eventbrite (or use widget below) - tickets are FREE.
What’s our theme? Everyone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it.
But writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan has written a comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking up' - to the realities of climate crisis, social breakdown, and personal agency - which implicates us all.
In the internet era, no one escapes the global revolution of learning, connecting and mobilising and its entangled consequences. This reality demands a political response.
But our current politics - led by squabbling parties and their exhausted ideologies - are clearly broken and dysfunctional. Only 2% of the UK electorate think it's worth the time or money to join a political party.
How do we put the full spectrum of a consciously awakening humanity at the heart of society, economy and politics? As social bonds fray and the planet burns, a politics of 'waking up' is more urgently required than ever.
Informed by decades of public advocacy, transformative work with both local and global communities, as well as her lifelong commitment to inner wisdom, The Politics of Waking Up lays out Adnan's practical, beautiful and urgent ways to redesign politics for an era of people power.
Drawing on her years of political entrepreneurship as co-initiator of The Alternative UK, Adnan shares a compelling vision of a 'fractal' politics with an emphasis on new patterns of behaviour and viable prototypes of social progress that can be copied and replicated everywhere.
She presents a coherent and radical alternative to our current socio-political turbulence. One that is there for the taking.
IN THIS hour-long event, introduced by activist/futurist Pat Kane, author and political entrepreneur Indra Adnan will talk with Jeremy Lent (author of The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe (info) (buy).
They will explore their mutual interest in how our accounts of human nature (and humans as nature) strongly shape our political priorities. And what kinds of new activism and practice is required, so that we are "waking up" from our consumerist and addictable slumbers.
Their conversation will be followed by Q&A from the audience.
Learn more about, and buy, The Politics of Waking Up here.
This is the second part of a 2-part series. The first part featured Jeremy Lent and his new book The Web of Meaning, interviewed by Indra Adnan
Indra’s book asks: what kinds of new systems - in economy, polity, culture, technology and more - do our many crises demand? Jeremy’s book deepens our conception of human being, our lives embedded in a “web of meaning” - a framework to achieve an ecological civilisation.
Event organised by www.thealternative.org.uk and Jeremy Lent. Thanks to Parker and Ethan Cook for technical assistance with these webcasts