Transcending the Alt Reich in an Age of Collapse and Renewal with Nafeez Ahmed

Thursday May 15th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk and discussion starts 7pm

The far-right is resurgent. The United States has been taken over by a technology oligarchy with an alarming technofascist agenda to supercharge hyper-capitalism and fracture democracies.

In this interactive talk and discussion session, author, systems theorist and journalist Nafeez Ahmed will draw on his transdisciplinary research into what he calls “the planetary phase shift” to help us make sense of this dangerous moment, and create strategies for action.

For as well as an unprecedented convergence of ecological, energy, food and economic crises, there is also an unprecedented possibility space emerging for the radical transformation of the systems that define civilisation.

Nafeez will discuss the findings of his new book, "Alt Reich: The Network War to Destroy the West from Within", and argue that understanding the nature of the ideology of the far-right through a systems lens can help us recognise strategies to defeat it through systemic transformation. He will show how the Alt Reich is an effort to head off the emancipatory possibilities of system changes that are occurring right now across society, culture and technology.

Nafeez is the creator of the peer-reviewed Planetary Phase Shift collective intelligence framework which he writes about via his newsletter, Age of Transformation, Executive Director of the System Shift Lab and Global Head of Research and Communications at Unitas Global Advisory. He is Special Investigations Reporter At Large for Byline Times, and Full Member at the Club of Rome

The evening will include a break for a one-pot vegan supper.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk and discussion starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter, £8 Under 25. Food complimentary.

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