Deep Thought: softly revolt against the Machine

Post Wwii reality in Europe and North America was built on an unholy tandem between feminine ideas of solidarity (of building back, with safety nets, after a cataclysmic event) and the masculine rapaciousness of the profit seeking machine (within which the military industrial complex is an element). The idea that the machine is the engine that enables the caring softness metamorphosised over the course of time, to make the pursuit of lucre a societal end in its own right.

After decades of fetishising masculine ideas of technology-enabled progress rewarded with limitless profit, we stand on the precipice of being swallowed up by the machine, our own flesh expendable, our collective home about to be set alight. Regaining the confidence of feminine softness, leading with love rather than dominating with greed, will take courage that is hopefully still engrained in our muscle memory.

A radically different narrative of what is true and of who we are is urgently needed.

Telling a story of human oneness and soft solidarity is therefore existential - but we’ve been trained to see it as unserious. Can we still lovingly revolt against the machine we’ve come to idolise? Join us for a – feminine, if you like - conversation.