Biosystems

A three-part audio venture into possibilities of ecological thought beyond the ‘pleasure machine’ of petroculture. Structured around the core themes of FOOD, REST and PLAY, Cauliflower Love Bike explores how low carbon imaginaries manifest in the energies of everyday life, speculative thought, social activity and artistic practice. Spotlighting the work of filmmakers, chefs, community organisers, artists, writers, childcare workers and children, each episode follows the threads of postcapitalist desire, alternative food cultures, rechilding, pandemic reflections and radical dreaming, to ask: what existing and future practices might offer energised and communal challenges to climate crisis?

REST: Why do we find it so difficult to fully embrace rest? This episode reclaims our right to a radical limitless pleasurable pause, rediscovering the act of resting as a tool for resisting the frenetic rhythms imposed by capitalism and exploring rest as a different way of listening for signs of individual and collective rupture.

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A three-part audio venture into possibilities of ecological thought beyond the ‘pleasure machine’ of petroculture. Structured around the core themes of FOOD, REST and PLAY, Cauliflower Love Bike explores how low carbon imaginaries manifest in the energies of everyday life, speculative thought, social activity and artistic practice. Spotlighting the work of filmmakers, chefs, community organisers, artists, writers, childcare workers and children, each episode follows the threads of postcapitalist desire, alternative food cultures, rechilding, pandemic reflections and radical dreaming, to ask: what existing and future practices might offer energised and communal challenges to climate crisis?

SHOWNOTES

REST: Why do we find it so difficult to fully embrace rest? This episode reclaims our right to a radical limitless pleasurable pause, rediscovering the act of resting as a tool for resisting the frenetic rhythms imposed by capitalism and exploring rest as a different way of listening for signs of individual and collective rupture.

Featured in this episode is:

A three-part audio venture into possibilities of ecological thought beyond the ‘pleasure machine’ of petroculture. Structured around the core themes of FOOD, REST and PLAY, Cauliflower Love Bike explores how low carbon imaginaries manifest in the energies of everyday life, speculative thought, social activity and artistic practice. Spotlighting the work of filmmakers, chefs, community organisers, artists, writers, childcare workers and children, each episode follows the threads of postcapitalist desire, alternative food cultures, rechilding, pandemic reflections and radical dreaming, to ask: what existing and future practices might offer energised and communal challenges to climate crisis?

SHOWNOTES

PLAY: While play might be co-opted for capitalism, true play is that which exceeds instrumentalism and commodification. This episode reclaims play from its dialectical relation with work, exploring play as a practice and thought-mode that is capable of radical sensing, temporal sabotage, tenderness, sociality and a joyous excess that is also low-carbon.

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