179. Indy Johar - The boring revolution, computational bureaucracy, the accounting pathway from ownership to stewardship
May 26, 2023
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Indy Johar from Dark Matter Labs talks about reimagining bureaucracy for planetary needs, shifting from ownership to custodianship, and the importance of computational capacity. They discuss the evolution of dominion perspective, decentralized governance, and visionary projects promoting stewardship and circular relationships. The conversation also explores true cost economics, the polymathic revolution, and the depth of embodied knowledge in mastering complex tasks.
Rethink bureaucracy to harness computational capacity for transformative governance.
Shift from ownership to custodianship to prioritize ecological capital over financial returns.
Embrace polymathic mindset and embodied knowledge for deep societal transformation.
Deep dives
Democratizing Societal Agency in Building the Future
The podcast delves into Indie Joar's journey of democratizing the capacity to shape environments and futures by challenging the underlying structures of property, finance, value flows, and governance. Joar emphasizes the need to reimagine our relationship with the world beyond externalizing costs and acknowledges that systemic failures underlie issues like climate change.
Transforming Underlying Structures for Global Impact
Joar highlights the need to fundamentally change underlying structures rooted in societal violence and systemic failures, like the object-subject worldview and theories of dominance over nature. He discusses the acceleration of this story over the past 400 years and the potential for computational bureaucracy to reshape relationships and governance at a planetary scale.
Revolutionizing Concepts of Ownership and Property
The podcast explores a radical shift in redefining ownership and property as forms of stewardship and responsibility, emphasizing the need to move away from economic incentives that prioritize financial returns over ecological capital. Joar envisions a future where custodianship replaces ownership, leading to self-sovereign relationships with materials and generative structures.
Polydisciplinary Approach to Systemic Change
The conversation delves into the importance of a polymathic and transdisciplinary approach to societal transformation, highlighting the value of embodied craft experience and intuition in understanding complex systems. By fostering a polymathic mindset, institutions can navigate transformations at a deeper level, addressing the multi-dimensional nature of challenges.
Reimagining Human Development and Knowledge Structures
Joar emphasizes the necessity of reimagining human identity and understanding our embedded relationships with the world. He discusses the intersections between craft mastery, intuition, and deep knowledge structures, advocating for a shift towards embodied knowledge and holistic approaches to system change.
Indy Johar at Dark Matter Labs address some of our most pressing planetary needs and we talk about their work. This is a fascinating conversation where we touch upon objects, our relationships to them and how that is important to rethink bureaucracy to and allow it to harness our increased computational capacity. We also talk about ownership and for pathways towards custodianship, how we can orient towards letting life find a way, how work could be part of liberating us in the new paradigm, why direct redistribution is most likely not the path forward and why all of this fundamentally is an invitation to rethink what it means to be human. This is a mind blowing conversation. Enjoy! Host: Amit Paul
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