Mar 15, 2024

If you happen to be anywhere near Porto, Portugal, at the beginning of June, I’ll be giving a talk entitled ‘Limits to Growth and the End of History: Or How Collapse Anxiety Made the Vikings Trans’ at the Commonwealth of Free Spirits 1st International Conference. Regular Dodcast guests Jasun Horsley, Adam Ormes, and Keith Preston will also be speaking over the weekend, so it looks set to be a potent gathering of souls. Full details and programme as follows.

The Commonwealth of Free Spirits (CoFS) is an association of cognitive dissidents from across the political spectrum and beyond. From radicals and revolutionaries to poets and permaculturalists, mystics and musicians to artists and adventurers, we represent an ever widening range of counterpoints to prevailing norms.

As the spiritually bankrupt global technocracy strives to destroy all challengers to its hegemony, we strive to create real and practicable alternatives rooted in reciprocity and non-coercion. Where ideologues and pundits seek division and antagonism, we seek synthesis and balance. Our vision is to grow out from the liminal spaces of our world, like roots beneath paving stones, forming havens of life and freedom in the midst of a decaying and dystopian society.

It is not our intention to prescribe a particular trajectory, but to invite you to participate in forms of human endeavour that stimulate natural creativity, and hence chart more authentic courses through the stormy waters of this age.

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THE COMMONWEALTH OF FREE SPIRITS
1st International Conference
Location: Porto / Date: 1-2 June 2024

Day One: Saturday 1st June

10.00 ADAM ORMES
Technocracy, the Inklings and the Spiritual Struggle of Our Time

11.15 ARTHUR EDWARDS
The I in Finance: Economics as Revelation

12.30 ANDRZEJ WALENKIEWICZ
Old Prussians: Proto-anarchists from the Baltic

BREAK: 13.45 to 14.45

14.45 LUKE DODSON
Limits to Growth and the End of History: or How Collapse Anxiety Made the Vikings Trans

16.00 EMERALD GOULD
Musical Performance based on the work of Fernando Pessoa

Day Two: Sunday 2nd June

10.00 TROY SOUTHGATE
Anarchy in All But Name: Oscar Wilde’s Socialism

11.15 ALEXANDRE CASTRO
Looking at the Stars: How Astrology Can Help Us Make Sense of the Current Times

12.30 KEITH PRESTON
Anarchist Political Economy and Power Elite Theory: How States, Ruling Classes, and Empires Intersect

BREAK: 13.45 to 14.45

14.45 JASUN HORSLEY
Interview + Questions

16.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION/CLOSE

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Admission to the event costs just 10 euros for the entire weekend.

The venue/city centre is 15 minutes by metro from Porto airport.

For more information please email [email protected]

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