“Developing a familiarity with the past truly enriches our experience of living and can really give us some incredible tools for facing these impossible challenges that we have to face.”

I am very excited to share this conversation with the brilliant and passionate thinker, storyteller, and Italian Philosopher Federico Companga! In this episode, Federico discusses the role of imagination, nostalgia, storytelling, solidarity, and anarchism in creating new worlds. He emphasizes the importance of metaphysical inquiry and the need to reimagine reality. We dive into many other topics from mysticism to what is existence? what it means to be a migrant and find belonging. And the rise of reactionary politics at this time of collapse and unfolding disasters… and more! Much of the conversation stems from Federico’s new fabulous book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History.

(warning: I say beautiful a lot in this episode, because, well his ideas and stories are BEAUTIFUL!!!)

Federico is also the author of Prophetic Culture: recreation for adolescents (Bloomsbury: 2021), Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Last Night (Zero Books, 2013). Federico lives in London.

Federico Campagna's Work

Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History: Federico Campagna

Pushing Through Portals by calm.

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“There are tensions in modernity, and what we're witnessing now is this eruption of other intelligences, and it's what gives rise to the questions that I'm stumbling into.”

The wonderful Bayo Akomolafe joined carla for a rhizomatic conversation that moved across landscapes and into the cosmos, where they covered a myriad of topics, passions, and, yes, questions! Bayo weaves together beauty, insight, and contemplation, as he poetically evokes us to hold onto the trouble as we dance with the monstrous and create sanctuary. Plus so much more!

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"Every day when you stand up, you begin a new day, constructing autonomy and working in autonomy."

Raúl Zibechi joined carla for the inaugural episode of Walking With Change to talk about Societies in Movement, the many anticapitalist and anticolonial pathways, pedagogy and children, the duality of resistance and creating, autonomy, feminisms, Rojava, Zapatistas, spirituality, and more!

Raúl Zibechi is a Uruguayan writer, popular educator, and journalist, and has written numerous books, with his latest being, Constructing Worlds Otherwise.

• Raúl Zibechi Book (English translation by George Ygarza Quispe)
• "Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man" (Rojava pamphlet)
• No Spiritual Surrender (Klee Benally's book)
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Mutual Aid is Kin(etic): Ten things I feel about mutual aid

written by carla joy bergman ; read by carla

produced at Listening House Media

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music by Sour Gout from the album, Endless Everyday

this essay was originally written for Pressing Concern Books, bookmark series in spring of 2021