Critical Sustainability

Course Syllabus

Ravi Bajnath
In this opening Exploration, let’s deep dive into philosophy, science, and education to design an alternative educational system to modern living.

Education is a process of Self-discovery which enables our ability to recognize truth, consciousness, and bliss from within. Critical Sustainability is a meta-philosophy incorporating domains of Sustainability; Politics, Economics, Culture, and Ecology overlapping with investigations into Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Computer Science, and more. This designed worldview establishes an analytical framework to re-represent reality through the latest scientific knowledge and ancient spiritual teachings to help us navigate through life, community, and the ongoing challenges faced in the world.

Consider this an invitation to the Pluriverse, where our collective knowledge will guide us towards a better future.

🪸 Sustainability Rhizome

Global initiatives

Research-Based Institutions
Social & Spirituality
Quality Education
Projects-C
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Academic Fields

🎓 Philosophy of Mind
🎓 Metaphysics
🎓 Educational Neuroscience

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🗄️ Modules

🗄️ Orientation

Welcome to the SolarPunk Sangha!

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1
An introduction to the philosophy, mission, and goals of the SolarPunk Sangha. This module covers the background behind the Sangha while introducing custom educational strategies and the technology that empowers self-directed learning.
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🗄️ Lecture Series

Metaphysical Idealism: A Philosophy of Mind

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2
How and why do we have Subjective Experience? In this module, we will discuss Metaphysics and learn more about the worldview of Idealism and its application to Sustainability studies.
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Ontology: The Philosophy of Being

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3
What is reality and how do we begin to explore it? Ontology is where we will start to philosophically investigate into the nature of reality and create a framework for new social sciences to emerge. We are covering a lot of ground (of being) in this module to prepare for modeling Epistemology through the Tesseract.
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Epistemology: Interdimensional Ways of Knowing

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4
Learn about knowledge through the metaphor of the Tesseract, an interdimensional metaphor to transform your life!
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🗄️ Evergreen

Cosmogony: Comparative Mythology

Module #
5
Connect cultural myths with our current understanding of reality to become mindful of the current conscious experience.
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🚧 Projects

🎯 Local Practice

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📚 Recommended Literature

Title
Author
Domains
Links

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

1968
Paulo Freire
🇧🇷 Brazil
🪢 Culture
💡 Teaching and Training

A Realist Theory of Science

1975
Roy Bhaskar
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
🪢 Culture
🧿 Ideologies and Imaginaries

The Design Way

2012
Harold G. Nelson
🇺🇸 United States
🪢 Culture
🍄 Aesthetics and Design

The life course cube: A tool for studying lives

2019
Laura Bernarndi
🇺🇸 United States
🪢 Culture
💡 Research and Application

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of Sustainability

2015
Paul James
🇦🇺 Australia
🪢 Culture
💡 Teaching and Training

Tesseract Hypothesis

2010
Bruno della Chiesa
🇮🇹 Italy
🪢 Culture
💡 Research and Application

The End of the Cognitive Empire

2018
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
🇵🇹 Portugal
🪢 Culture
💡 Research and Application

Syntactic Structures

1957
Noam Chomsky
🇺🇸 United States
🪢 Culture
💡 Meditation and Reflexivity

Outline of a Theory of Practice

1977
Pierre Bourdieu
🇫🇷 France
😜 Diversity and Difference

Toward an experimental ecology of human development

1977
Urie Bronfenbrenner
🇷🇺 Russia
🪢 Culture
💡 Research and Application

The new science of the mind: from extended mind to embodied phenomenology

2013
Mark Rowlands
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales
🪢 Culture
💡 Research and Application

Understanding Media

1964
Marshall McLuhan
🇨🇦 Canada
☀️ Politics
📰 Interchange and Expression

A Thousand Plateaus

1980
Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari
🇫🇷 France,🇫🇷 France
🪢 Culture
😜 Diversity and Difference

The World as Will and Representation

1818
Arthur Schopenhauer
🇩🇪 Germany
🪢 Culture
🧿 Reason and Rationalization

Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics

2020
Bernardo Kastrup
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🪢 Culture
🧿 Ideologies and Imaginaries

Human Scale Development

1991
Manfred Max-Neef
🇨🇱 Chile
📉 Economics
⚒️ Prosperity and Resilience

Shiva Sutras: The Supreme Awakening

2017
Lakshman Joo
🇮🇳 India
🪢 Culture
🧿 Religiosity and Spirituality

Writings for a Liberation Psychology

1994
Ignacio Martín-Baró
🇸🇻 El Salvador
🪢 Culture
💡 Research and Application