The Against Capitalist Education Podcast

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. Elaine Graham-Leigh joins me again in an extended conversation discussing her Zero Books title “A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change” and the themes that emerge from it. This is the second part of a longer conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. Elaine Graham-Leigh joins me in an extended conversation discussing her Zero Books title “A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change“. The book looks at how and why the working class are being blamed for climate change, and what we can do about it. This is the first part of a longer conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. Andy Redman joins me in the first part of a longer conversation on politics, history, Trump, the EU, the legacy of Thatcher, Star Trek and education. This is the first part of a longer conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. Doug Lain, publisher, author and blogger returns for the third part of a conversation to discuss science fiction, Spock and issues of identifying class through accents in UK and US. The conversation is lighter and more personal. At one point Doug’s family return but we still continue to chat. This is the third part of a longer conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. Doug Lain, publisher, author and blogger returns this week to discuss writing, authors, the influence of film and the role of politics in fiction. This is the second part of a longer conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. My guest this week is the writer and publisher Doug Lain. His most recent book “After the Saucers Landed” was nominated for the 2016 Philip K Dick Award and warmly reviewed at The Hong Kong Review of Books by Alfie Bown. The conversation explores writing, science fiction – my contention that it is the “defining literary genre” of our age and Star Trek. This is the first part of a longer conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. My guest this week is the singer-songwriter, poet and environmental campaigner Chas Warlow. The conversation moves more freely and we discuss the philosophical position we call ‘denialism’, the role of engineering, the problems with our political processes and the lack of real understanding of the issues. This conversation is longer as we open up a space to allow us to discuss lots of connections. This is the second part of a two part conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. My guest this week is the singer-songwriter, poet and environmental campaigner Chas Warlow. We talk about cycling from London to Paris to raise awareness of environmental issues at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. This leads us into a conversation on the ideological dimension of debates around transport, especially the ‘car’ – and the poverty of effort in developing sustainable alternative transport infrastructures. We go on to discuss the importance of local environmental initiatives and how the accumulation and surplus of capital, in large corporations, too easily undermines the role of democratic representation and the wishes of a local community. This is the first part of a two part conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. In this conversation with Dr Atul Patel we begin by exploring Apocalypto and the so-called ‘God-shaped hole” (Blaise Pascal) in the human spirit – as if the root of our soul has been severed from its own source. We explore why there is so much resistance in exploring alternatives and sweep across a very brief history of the Theosophical Society – our focus is on this yearning within the human heart for a deeper, less fractured form of life. We also discuss Buddhism and the esoteric practices around restoring our relation to our own inwardness. We discuss Swedenborg’s notion of daemonic consciousness and link this to the attempted legitimisation of Satanism as a form of rational egotism and hedonism. And finally, we return to an image from the book – that the phenomenal world emerges out of a movement, a flow, which emanates from a root. This is the second part of a two part conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.

This podcast explores themes raised in Against Capitalist Education by Nadim Bakhshov published by Zero books. In this episode my guest is Dr Atul Patel. Dr Atul Patel has been a student of the spiritual sciences of Rudolf Steiner for over 30 years. In our conversation we explore a very subtle but quite difficult idea around the idea of method and knowledge in a spiritual science. Having come from a scientific background Dr Atul Patel discusses some of the weaknesses in modern scientific methodology. We briefly mention the citation ranking and how someone can rise up the ranks to Professorship without making any positive contribution to knowledge – effectively doing ‘negative research’. The conversation moves rapidly to the question of economics. Working in the financial services, Dr Atul Patel has developed interesting insights into how the economy could be ‘tweaked’ to serve people. He discusses an idea of quantitative easing and how generating and pumping money into the ‘real economy’ rather than the financial system itself could have huge benefits. I ask him why this is not happening: Is it a conspiracy of silence from a controlling elite or something simpler – the nature of the economy is more complex than most people acknowledge? This is the first part of a two part conversation. This is conversation worth listening to. ~ Peter Lato, CEO of Shovian Analytics This podcast was built with kind support of Doug Lain and Zero books with music created by Nadim Bakhshov and readings given by Doug Lain and Chas Warlow. And thanks to Ashley Whitear for all his generous technical support.